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Comment by mbac32768 | Hacker News Reader

yeah it's bullshit

go to ChatGPT and ask it to ask you relevant questions w.r.t. what blood tests you should order. then book them at Quest Diagnostics yourself for like $100 total. then ask it how to interpret the results.

voice any other concerns you might have as well.

follow up with human doctor only if necessary.

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Is this a joke? Or would you really trust your health to an LLM?

I took my kid to an ER with an emergency medical issue and the three specialists had no fucking idea what to do and were going to plan a treatment that wouldn't have helped while he died. Meanwhile we asked ChatGPT while we were beside him in bed, feeling doomed about the ventilator they were preparing for him what it could be and it identified the actual thing that was killing him and we pointed it out to them and they stopped everything and treated him for that thing instead and he was released the next morning and fully recovered.

The median doctor is probably worse than an LLM at this point.

Not the original poster but seems like some people see the use of LLMs as a cool factor, a cheat code providing them with information or ideas unavailable elsewhere.

In some ways they are right, the hallucinated drivel / slop unrealated to reality is unique. I guess.

And for people who cannot tell the difference, the slop synthesized to please them, well, pleases.

an LLM saved my little boy's life actually

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085356

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