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Like in pederatic care, not every child has a parent who takes good care of them. In hospitals, it is more often play therapists who do this work, but their neg
by zq2240 2y ago
Like in pederatic care, not every child has a parent who takes good care of them. In hospitals, it is more often play therapists who do this work, but their negative stress can also affect children's emotions. For example, some children feel very traumatized before doing line placement/blood test. This tool can help explain the specific process to them using empathic language and encourage them on specific topics.
I mean doctors and play therapists still have to do their job, We have interviewed some doctors who feel particularly frustrated about how to comfort children before tests or surgeries. They hope for a tool can help building comfort for kids -> which means time is faster to run tests.
- tempodox 2y agoUltimately, you are repackaging the services of actual LLM suppliers without having any knowledge or control of how those services might develop in the future. So it is logically and physically impossible for you to represent the fitness of those services for any purpose whatsoever. And anyone else you may have asked questions about this cannot either. I can only urge you to reconsider how honest, realistic, and credible those promises you make can possibly be. After all, you are playing with the lives and wellbeing of humans here. Every drug and therapeutic device has to go through rigorous vetting and testing before being cleared for human treatment. Ever heard of clinical trials? And you seriously think you can skip that with “we asked some pediatricians”? Please, think again. And ask someone with more domain knowledge than vague hopes in a technology they don't understand.
- zq2240 2y agoThanks for your feedback. I want to clarify that Starmoon is not being positioned as a therapeutic or medical device. Rather, it is intended as a supplementary tool that might potentially support emotional well-being, similar to how some doctors use YouTube videos to comfort kids for non-clinical support. Currently, we have agreements to pilot the product with a few hospitals in London to collect more data through trials to improve it.
- tempodox 2y agoA doctor can look at a YT video and know what's in it. They can judge whether it's appropriate for a child to watch. No doctor can know what output LLMs will generate, it is impossible to verify that it will be safe. Contrary to your claim those things aren't similar at all.
- akadeb 2y agoThanks for this feedback. I hear what you are saying. If I understand correctly its like LLMs are a black box doctors dont understand and while it talks back in a friendly voice it can cause harm if it says something awful. While this is not likely due to our prompting it is not impossible either. Junru and I will discuss the approach with pediatric care based on this. And I agree having domain expertise/advisors to guide us in the right direction is important
- laylower 2y agoMaybe convert it to an offline version of furby instead. My position would be not to confound treating/medicine with a neat stuffed animal.