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Isn't it more accurate to say that AI magnifies who you already are? I use AI to research health advice. In the past half year I've learned more about the mecha
by FooBarWidget 1y ago
Isn't it more accurate to say that AI magnifies who you already are? I use AI to research health advice. In the past half year I've learned more about the mechanics and mitigation strategies of hair greying, mental stress, oxidative stress, exercise benefits and fitfalls, and some skin conditions, than I've had in... well, forever. Before this I could Google for mainstream articles but none were very in-depth and accessible at the same time. Before AI, medical research papers might as well be ancient magical tomes to me. Now I can at least have a semi-informed opinion that I can discuss with doctors. Bot that doctors are helpful a lot of the time: unless you're dying, they usually tell you to go away, maybe eat a paracetamol. No preventative healthcare here. They also don't seem to know as much about food biochemical effects than I do, even though the AI keeps telling me to consult a doctor.
Doctors told me there are no better ways to treat my condition, meaning I have to resign myself to fate and luck. o3 researched medical papers and found that actually there are, the evidence tier is not that high but they might still work for me specifically, and the risks of those treatments are pretty low. So might as well try. Doctors absolutely do not have this can-do-as-long-as-it's-safe attitude and dismiss it as "no evidence", but apparently what they mean is insufficient evidence in large populations, not that it won't work for me. One of the AI suggestions was that I change one of the cremes. I asked for that, the doctor agreed to that one request luckily (they didn't even tell me it was an option the last time around), and now there's some improvement.
So yes AI is absolutely useful to me.
- lerp-io 1y agoit’s so good to see you showing the ability to take life back into your hands with augmented intelligence. we now have more and more ability than ever to be able to solve problems. that which was once expensive - medical knowledge of a doctor, for example, is now much more accesible and at our fingertips and we can research and learn medical literature so much faster now with AI.
- paul7986 1y agoIndeed that's my love of this technology portion yet there's going to be a decade to decades of change where people will start to lose their livelihoods and potentially be destitute until a universal basic income (welfare) is offered. If humanity / society is suffering from AI yet the pros of using AI is to help humanity and society they sorta cancel each other out! Also, are we really excited for all of us to be on welfare? Politically the right (independent myself) will finally be cheering on welfare for all lol as Musk and others lead us there.