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> ChatGPT was trained on the same medical textbooks and research papers that doctors are. There is a reason why the majority of a doctor's 8 years of training
by traceroute66 8mo ago
> ChatGPT was trained on the same medical textbooks and research papers that doctors are.
There is a reason why the majority of a doctor's 8 years of training is spent doing the rounds as a junior doctor in hospital wards ....
- tty456 8mo agoCurious, what is learned doing rounds that isn't taught in med school, that ChatGPT could benefit from?
- traceroute66 8mo ago> Curious, what is learned doing rounds that isn't taught in med school, that ChatGPT could benefit from? Seriously ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The textbooks are the theory. The hospital wards are the practice. The hospital wards are what shows you that the human body is complex and many times things don't happen like the textbook says it will. And then there's the ICU, pediatric, geriatric and mental health wards where the patient often cannot even describe their symptoms ...
- yunnpp 8mo agoThe idea that theory does not match practice is very foreign to a software developer or somebody that works in the information processing field. We are spoiled to have mathematicians do the hard work, and then we just get to botch it all with software that doesn't even work. But people with real jobs doing actual science/engineering know that the practice never matches the theory and that one needs to harden their balls in the thick of battle to come to a true understanding of things. That's why only a software developer, in their full command of hubris and ignorance, would suggest that you can replace a doctor with a computer program that has digested every book in existence and then statistically regurgitates its contents.
- kruffalon 8mo agoPeople! Interacting with real people, facing a person trying to get help for something that they don't want to experience is vastly different than reading about a symptom or group of symptoms in a book.
- moffkalast 8mo agoThat just sounds like instruct tuning on user data with extra steps. They must've collected hundreds of millions of conversation examples of people asking for medical related things by now.
- kruffalon 8mo agoYou're thinking about nursing. This is a different field that I think doctors should study and practice too. Doctors, from what I can tell, receive no formal education in nursing.
- tty456 8mo agoRight. All doctors are 100% happy to help you, listen intently, and are never condescending! /s
- kruffalon 8mo agoNo, in my experience most are actually quite condescending, but I can't imagine they would treat me better if I was the first ever patient they had to deal with.
- dgxyz 8mo agoNothing. Need brain, body, hands, eyes.
- ruszki 8mo agoJust from coding: Clean Code. Most companies require this on principle. But nobody follows it. And there is a good reason, because if you follow it, your code will be completely unreadable and thus unmaintainable.
- batshit_beaver 8mo agoIn theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice...
- kledru 8mo agowell, chatGPT only started its first year and probably has not even done an autopsy