Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023
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Should the mathy-maths be telling doctors what might be wrong with you? And can they actually help train medical professionals to treat human patients? Alex and Emily discuss the not-so-real medical and healthcare applications of ChatGPT and other large language models. Plus another round of fresh AI hell, featuring "charisma as a service," and other assorted reasons to tear your hair out. This episode was first recorded on February 17th of 2023. Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube. References: Glass.ai makes “diagnosis machine”: https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1620128621821317125?t=Q6tTAOcGAoFJ3Ko9m4EC9g&s=19 Percy Liang claims 'PubMedGPT' can pass medical exams: https://crfm.stanford.edu/2022/12/15/pubmedgpt.html https://twitter.com/percyliang/status/1603469265583353856?s=20&t=SdWeINzUw92pbkTO8OAVqQ Emily's reaction to the above: https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1603766381807570944?s=20&t=SdWeINzUw92pbkTO8OAVqQ ChatGPT gets 60 percent of questions right in US Medical Licensing Exam: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/chatgpt-passes-us-medical-licensing-exam-without-clinician-input An Apple Watch error is clogging up 911 lines: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here? https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/13/chatgpt-assisted-diagnosis/ NVIDIA “eye contact” demo: https://twitter.com/Jousefm2/status/1616878021280993284 “Theory of the mind": https://twitter.com/LChoshen/status/1623575423652139015?t=Ohc9tzB09pAEddAReLc6mA&s=09 You can check out future livestreams at https://twitch.tv/DAIR_Institute. Follow us! Emily Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyMBender Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social Alex Twitter: https://twitter.com/@alexhanna Mastodon: https://dair-community.social/@alex Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social Music by Toby Menon. Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Christie Taylor.
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