If you're going to ask an LLM for a medical diagnosis, stop what you're doing and ask a doctor instead. There is no good advice downstream of the decision to ask an LLM for a medical diagnosis
> What about the multiple people who have reported receiving incredibly useful information after asking an LLM, when doctors were useless?
They got lucky.
This is why I wrote this blog post. I'm sure some people got lucky when an LLM managed to give them the right answer, because they go and brag about it. How many people got the wrong answer? How many of them bragged about their bad decision? This is _selection bias_. I'm writing about my embarrassing lapse of judgment because I doubt anyone else will
monerozcash|2 months ago
Should they not have done so?
Like this guy for example, was he being stupid? https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/37561550/teen-saves-life-cha...
Or this guy? https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1krzu6t/chatgpt_an...
Or this woman? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171639
This is a real thing that's happening every day. Doctors are not very good at recognizing rare conditions.
shortrounddev2|2 months ago
They got lucky.
This is why I wrote this blog post. I'm sure some people got lucky when an LLM managed to give them the right answer, because they go and brag about it. How many people got the wrong answer? How many of them bragged about their bad decision? This is _selection bias_. I'm writing about my embarrassing lapse of judgment because I doubt anyone else will