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Art's avatar

Even more horrifying than AI is that apparently some physicians are using Google to diagnose patients. Google: “The patient’s cancer is the result of systemic racism. Rx for lifetime reparations payments.”

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Karen Keener's avatar

Dude, I use Google, I know how retarded it is. AI is merely taking the consensus of the most information over the most reliable information. It’s already programmed to do that. We all know what happens when we take consensus of stupidity over accuracy.

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No name here's avatar

Not exactly. Many AIs overlay what is considered the most reliable information over a base of knowledge it gained from "reading" books and scraping the web...

But considering what we've seen from the medical establishment over the last few years, "you got shingles because you used a racial slur in fourth grade" is a foregone conclusion either way. Medical journals are pretty much indistinguishable from retards on Tumblr circa 2014 at this point.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

AI is programmed with the official narrative/story of just about everything. Go ahead and ask it about chemtrails.

It's horribly biased.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

It seems to me there has been a decline in the quality of physicians for a few decades now. I attribute it to a generalized DUMBING DOWN of the population. "The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low."

Hunter S. Thompson

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Karen Keener's avatar

There you go. It’s not about accuracy. I still take Cochrane over most one off bullshit studies, even if they write 30 fallacious and holey studies that support nonsense.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Bottom line: Ai can't "think" like humans can. It can't reason the same way, either. This is apparent to me after months working with it for 8-9 hours a day.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

Yes! Studies seem to have become very questionable at best. There was a time when Lancet and NEJM were very highly regarded and contained useful information. "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

George Carlin

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Mitch's avatar

agreed, separating the wheat from the chafe is what the experts are for. AI is like a collection of "news" headlines jammed together.

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webstersmill's avatar

What an accurate analogy: medical journals / retards on Tubmlr.

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Metta Zetty's avatar

100% ~ Reminds me of a comment from one of the foremost AI developers:

"The difference between AI and pre-AI. . . . Google gave you 4 million web sites that were the answer to . . . [your] question. . . . Today, ChatGPT will give one very articulate answer . . . and it will position that answer as the truth. If you are not the most intelligent man alive, or woman alive . , you'll believe it. . . . Very few of us go back to ChatGPT and say, "Where the f**k did you get that from? " ~ Mo Gawdat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVO7sIQl0e4

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Bgagnon's avatar

YIKES - it’s worse than I thought! 😳

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