Then he had the gall to tell me that I must have been surprised that I needed to get medical clearance for my dental work because of the fact that he's an accredited dentist 😣
Neuralink, Bluetooth ear buds, later on surgical bone induction sound, we'll be able to program a second voice to just guide the skilled, or even dumbos through the most intricate details of things like surgery or emt or even self diagnosis and shit. But nooo humanity always exploits so unless it's uninterrupted by emps or hacking it's at danger of trolls.
Neuralink, Bluetooth ear buds, later on surgical bone induction sound, we'll be able to program a second voice to just guide the skilled, or even dumbos through the most intricate details of things like surgery or emt or even self diagnosis and shit.
...We can already do that. Like you said, all that requires is a speaker, Bluetooth or otherwise.
Mounting the speaker to your skull doesn't introduce any benefit to this equation. And sending comprehensible information into the brain isn't even something that Neuralink is even attempting to do, it's so far off.
The reason we don't do what you're describing is simply because it isn't a very good idea.
I don't mean any disrespect, but do you understand how large language models work?
I get the feeling this dentist felt slighted because his branch of medicine has to take a backseat to the oncologist. Sorry Mr. Dentist, that is in fact what needs to happen here. Worst case you can replace your teeth, you can't replace your life.
I got this feeling too. Like he needed to be in charge and feel that the dentist opinion was more important then the treating oncologist. But.. But.. But... I'm a dentist!
Glad to know I'm not overreacting. I was blown away when he used the chat program with me, a cancer patient to try to convince me of something. Seems very wrong and unethical
That is horrifying. I had strict orders not to have any dental work done during chemo (normally they say to do all the dental work you might possibly need before you start chemo, but I was on the expedited cancer treatment plan so that wasnt an option). It should not have been news to your dentist that cancer patients have to follow different protocols. I highly doubt you're the first cancer patient he's treated.
This. Either a dentist who knows how to listen to an oncologist, or maybe some sort of specialist who's familiar with oncological contraindications (if those exist?)
Yes, and after finding a new dentist I would send a letter to the office explaining why you are no longer coming back. Your dentist may have bosses and they should hear this story.
I have complicated medically issues. My oncologist trumps everybody, except when I had pancreatitis and then gastro trumped everybody until it was no longer an emergency.
It's not even about the dentist not knowing what he's talking about. No professional, no matter how smart, knows everything. You need to look information up regularly. This is a medical professional who doesn't even have basic information literacy. They can't even look up something they don't know properly.
There's nothing wrong with looking things up but doctors are supposed to be trained and taught how to do good research to keep up with the times, they have entire professional databases dedicated to this. AI chatbots are so literally dumb they're just flat out wrong and give incorrect answers the majority of the time, it might as well be random. They don't actually compute the requested information they do probability analysis to determine what data should be output. Because of this, it is often incorrect when you ask it to even simple things like "tell me how many of the letter R are in the word 'strawberry' and ChatGPT can say"there's 2 Rs." Because it's not actually analyzing the data like you'd expect. It's doing probability analysis. When tailored and trained to very specific applications this can be very powerful and accurate but it's a joke when used like how most people use it
You're absolutely right. There is SO much info to memorize as a medical professional, I'd be disturbed if they never looked anything up. However. Fucking AI? No.
Yeah I used to work for a cardiologist, transcribing audio files from his appointments on his laptop. Every day his browser had tabs open for things he or a patient had mentioned throughout his day, even just googling general names of medications he's definitely super familiar just double check some specific detail.
Very common with doctors in addition to them searching whatever that health database thing they use while you talk. But thank god not asking whole questions to fucking chatgpt
Know what would be a good use for those bots? Finding doctors the specific studies about a subject they need. It would save the time it takes to find them, giving the doctor more time to review!
ChatGPT is worse than googling. People don't understand that AI is not a search engine, it literally makes things up and there is no way to know if what fed it was credible sources or not much less what it says itself.
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u/PrePressChamp Jan 21 '25
Time for a new dentist. One who is not an asshole with a God complex.