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Doctors are worried about the ideas bots are putting in patients' heads
- richrichie 3y agoWay before AI assistant became a thing, medical errors had become third leading cause of deaths in the US. It would be nice to see a longitudinal control study comparing bots and human doctors. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
- isaacfrond 3y agotl;dr People are increasingly turning to bots powered by artificial intelligence for advice when they get sick. But the bots aren’t always right. Bots “have a veneer of human confidence that engenders a greater degree of trust or credibility, which I think is frequently pretty misplaced,” said Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, a consultant on medical innovation. In some cases, the AI has helped pinpoint patients’ conditions. A woman in Alaska earlier this year credited ChatGPT with figuring out she had multiple sclerosis. But, a study said it gave the wrong diagnosis more than 80 percent of the time after it was presented with pediatric cases.
- h2odragon 3y ago"WebMD" made everyone think they had cancer too, according to the hype stories of that time. "$newthing Bad" sub-flavor "Wise Doctors' time wasted by Foolish Supplicants"