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12 hours ago
My father, who is otherwise in very good health for a ~60 year old, has severely reduced kidney function from taking an ibuprofen+antihistamine most days of his early life to deal with allergies.
I'll second the claim that no doctor at any point in his life had told him the risks of doing that, and many encouraged the use of ibuprofen over any other alternative (including the alternative of not using OTC painkillers every single day).
If there's one thing I'm hopeful for regarding all this AI hype, it's that some day we might actually get the Expert Systems we were promised decades ago. Then, finally, we can stop expecting human doctors to know everything. There's just so much going on inside our bodies and it's unrealistic.
I had a relative with a different story in the same theme. It sucks and I want to see this technology do something truly beneficial for a change....
The expert system relies on training data, and most of the medical data on the internet is either outdated or outright wrong. AI is not going to solve what the existence of Google hasn't solved already.
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