Google’s medical AI chatbot is being tested in hospitals

LLMs hallucinate way too much for use in anything serious. And the privacy implications are harrowing<p>I barely even trust LLMs anymore to help me with orientating research, I keep finding out that half of what it says is a lie

We had superhuman diagnosis systems 50 years ago!<p>&gt; Mycin was never actually used in practice. This wasn&#x27;t because of any weakness in its performance - in tests it outperformed members of the Stanford medical school. It was as much because of ethical and legal issues related to the use of computers in medicine - if it gives the wrong diagnosis, who do you sue?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinuresearch.tripod.com&#x2F;ai&#x2F;www-cee-hw-ac-uk&#x2F;_alison&#x2F;ai3notes&#x2F;section2_5_5.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinuresearch.tripod.com&#x2F;ai&#x2F;www-cee-hw-ac-uk&#x2F;_alison&#x2F;...</a>

A lot of medicine is about pattern recognition and in that sense this could help just as it does for software development by boosting newer doctors who are early in their careers and building their intuition. I&#x27;ve seen this gap first hand even with doctors from the best schools and residency programs.<p>Though, it&#x27;s probably going to take a few more iterations before its ready for prime time.<p>I say this as a non medical person but one with three doctors in my immediate family

It seems inevitable in the future I won&#x27;t have a choice whether my info (however personal) gets sucked up into some corporate database via AI chatbots. Even if I were to refuse to use one personally, I have no control whether the nurse I talk to is just typing what I tell them into a chatbot on their laptop.

It would be interesting to see if AI became antivaxer which we do see in some doctors of today.

Oh no. And what patient data did they train it on?

There’s a push to privatize healthcare in Canada in the last few years. I worry the public system will crumble into an AI driven, grifter run trash heap and we’ll get the worst of everything where taxes stay high, because we have “free” healthcare, and <i>real</i> healthcare is private and only accessible to the rich.

&gt;According to Google senior research director Greg Corrado, WSJ says, Med-PaLM 2 is still in its early stages. Corrado said that while he wouldn’t want it to be a part of his own family’s “healthcare journey,” he believes Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold.”<p>lol

What could possibly go wrong?

Google is suggesting this should be used in poor countries without enough doctors because they know it is (or essentially will be, after the tidal wave of malpractice suits happens) illegal in the US.