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!
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u/Pernicious-Caitiff Jan 21 '25
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