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Cd's avatar

Yes. So the AI can do conventional (killer) medicine better than a human? So what. I still don't want it.

Mike Adams is supposedly developing an AI for alternative medicine - which sounds promising. But even then I would regard something like that as simply a launching point.

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ForestDi56's avatar

AI will not be able to feel the pulses or other diagnostic assessments which, when done by a grounded, skilled human who has senses that go beyond what a computer is capable of, can detect many things causing illness in a human. And I am appalled at anyone thinking “alternative medicine” can be programed into a computer. An herbal database is useful but I designed one of those myself decades ago and it was interactive to boot. But diagnosis was on me and it should remain with the human.

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Cd's avatar

Ideally, yes. In the absence of a skilled practitioner, though (which is where I and probably a ton of others live), I'd definitely see what it had to say.

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Cinghale's avatar

His AI still has a LOT of problems and errors. I actually received a paragraph of answers in Chinese characters…

Thank you Gato for putting this out there and allowing space for the discussion. The differing answers give me much to contemplate.

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Cd's avatar

Thanks for the update. I was holding off downloading it for bandwidth reasons. Maybe I'll hold a bit longer.

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