Comment by NitpickLawyer
7 days ago
> Anyone who recommends LLM to replace a doctor or a therapist or any health profession is utterly ignorant or has interest in profiting from it.
I disagree. There are places in the world where doctors are an extremely scarce resource. A tablet with a LLM layer and webmd could do orders of magnitude more good than bad. Not doing anything, not having access to medical advice, not using this already kills many many people. Having the ability to ask in your own language, in natural language, and get a "mostly correct" answer can literally save lives.
LLM + "docs" + the patient's "common sense" (i.e. no glue on pizza) >> not having access to a doctor, following the advice of the local quack, and so on.
The problem is that is not what they will do. They will have less doctors where they exist now and real doctors will become even more expensive making it accessible only for the richest of the riches. I agree that having it as an alternative would be good, but I don't think that's what's going to happen
Eh, I'm more interested in talking and thinking about the tech stack, not how a hypothetical evil "they" will use it (which is irrelevant to the tech discussed, tbh) . There are arguments for this tech to be useful, without coming from "naive" people or from people wanting to sell something, and that's why I replied to the original post.
> I'm more interested in talking and thinking about the tech stack, not how a hypothetical evil "they" will use it
I couldn't have nailed the problems with our industry better if I tried.