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Oh yeah I'm sure it's not super accurate, I just mean the specific task of diagnosing a patient would seem to benefit from a LLM-like piece of software.
by keiferski 2y ago
Oh yeah I'm sure it's not super accurate, I just mean the specific task of diagnosing a patient would seem to benefit from a LLM-like piece of software.
- gsck 2y agoBut surely this could just be done with a constraint software, with better accuracy and less likelihood of making something up?
- keiferski 2y agoPossibly but in my experience LLMs are more useful for brainstorming and generating original ideas than “being accurate” all of the time. Hence my idea that they could be useful in diagnosing difficult conditions.
- wholinator2 2y agoYeah, it's a trade off between certainty and creativity. Constraint software would be all certainty which, if it contained all the required information, would be the perfect system. But we don't have "all the information", or at least i haven't seen anyone claim so. So some degree of out-of-box creativity is required to catch more obscure correlations and strangeness. I think AI is just about as certain as previous systems, but with a big boost to the creativity aspect. It's also free. I can imagine the omnidiagnoser would be a closely held trade secret worth billions and thus absolutely not free to the public.