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This is a solid point. When humans have vague or incomplete knowledge on a specific topic, the very LAST thing they do is fill in the gaps with their best gues
by caeril 2y ago
This is a solid point.
When humans have vague or incomplete knowledge on a specific topic, the very LAST thing they do is fill in the gaps with their best guesses. Humans are built with no ego, and when they don't have a high degree of confidence in their answer, they always admit to it, and they NEVER fill in knowledge gaps with low-confidence information. Hallucination is a problem that ONLY exists with these evil machine models, not the flawless Vulcan Logic Devices inside our heads.
What these LLM fetishists don't understand is that this hallucination problem is a Very Big Deal, and we should always rely on the infallible human brain, which has never made assumptions, lied, or, made shit up.
Whenever you're looking at the third leading cause of death in the United States (preventable medical errors), seeing that a quarter million Americans are murdered annually, with a significant proportion of those errors being gross misdiagnosis, it's Super Important to remember that an LLM that hallucinates will NEVER be suitable for medical advice, because the human brain is a Magical Jesus Box that has never made similar mistakes.
Sometimes I like to watch World War 2 documentaries, and I tear up at the realization that nearly half a million American soldiers lost their lives in four years to those evil Japanese and Nazi scum. War is Hell.
But what is DEFINITELY NOT HELL, is exactly the same number of American fatalities at the hands of human doctors with their perfect, infallible, flawless-in-every-way human brains in only half the time, which is what we have now.
Imagine how bad it would be if we allowed these LLMs to hallucinate medical advice! People might die! It would be horrible!
- daveguy 2y agoMedical software and devices are held to a higher standard of correctness. And because that correctness can be empirically measured, why shouldn't it be? At least humans are currently capable of saying "I don't know" and until GPTs are too, I don't think they are suitable for medical advice. But I did enjoy reading the satire, thank you!