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Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works. Besides that models can be used to create new drugs, utiliz

Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works. Besides that models can be used to create new drugs, utilizing a drug's side effects to treat diseases that weren't the drug's main focus is quite similar to what doctors do. As for the "true AI" part, AI is a fancy term meaning multiple things nowadays. There's no such thing as "true AI".

riku_iki 2y ago
> Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works. Its not doctors who do testing. I was several times in situation, when doctor with early ChatGPT confidence prescribed some treatment, and I googled actual NIH study at home and seen very different conclusions to what doctor told me. Doctors can confidently hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable.
- thfuran 2y ago
  Doctors (in the US) tend to pay a whole lot for insurance because they can be sued for huge amounts of money when they screw up. Being confidently wrong and deviating from the standard of care by dismissing things or mistreating them is exactly the sort of thing that loses them malpractice cases. Of course an after the fact payout may not be able to make you whole.
  - riku_iki 2y ago
    > Being confidently wrong and deviating from the standard of care by dismissing things or mistreating them is exactly the sort of thing that loses them malpractice cases. its theoretical assumption, but looking at my personal experience, it doesn't look like doctors feel much pressure to do some deep research, and they just give some semi-generic advises which could contradict actual studies.
    - thfuran 2y ago
      The standard of care is more conservative than doing whatever you can find a study saying might help, and being a bit behind of the latest research is very different from "hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable".
      - riku_iki 2y ago
        > The standard of care is more conservative than doing whatever you can find a study saying might help or may be not aggressive enough to prevent deadly decease. The point is that you can't know if doctor did some real high quality research, or just made some superficial decision, and there is no clear way to held him accountable for being lazy or uneducated.

riku_iki 2y ago

> Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works. Its not doctors who do testing. I was several times in situation, when doctor with early ChatGPT confidence prescribed some treatment, and I googled actual NIH study at home and seen very different conclusions to what doctor told me. Doctors can confidently hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable.

thfuran 2y ago
Doctors (in the US) tend to pay a whole lot for insurance because they can be sued for huge amounts of money when they screw up. Being confidently wrong and deviating from the standard of care by dismissing things or mistreating them is exactly the sort of thing that loses them malpractice cases. Of course an after the fact payout may not be able to make you whole.
- riku_iki 2y ago
  > Being confidently wrong and deviating from the standard of care by dismissing things or mistreating them is exactly the sort of thing that loses them malpractice cases. its theoretical assumption, but looking at my personal experience, it doesn't look like doctors feel much pressure to do some deep research, and they just give some semi-generic advises which could contradict actual studies.
  - thfuran 2y ago
    The standard of care is more conservative than doing whatever you can find a study saying might help, and being a bit behind of the latest research is very different from "hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable".
    - riku_iki 2y ago
      > The standard of care is more conservative than doing whatever you can find a study saying might help or may be not aggressive enough to prevent deadly decease. The point is that you can't know if doctor did some real high quality research, or just made some superficial decision, and there is no clear way to held him accountable for being lazy or uneducated.