I’m sorry but this is a bad take. We’re suffering from a healthcare crisis, globally. We don’t have nearly enough doctors. Even in the US where wait times are relatively low, it sometimes takes months to get an appointment with my PCP, let alone a specialist. And while I do sometimes feel when I see an NP at an urgent care like I could have used an LLM for all the time and attention they paid to my concerns, that’s not a compliment to the LLM.
Besides that 60-70% is not an acceptable hit rate and there’s already early evidence of skill atrophy in AI saturated fields like radiology. We need way more people offering more personalized care, using more judgement and offering more compassion, not a chat interface that says “you’re totally right to push back, the post nasal drip was the smoking gun.”
Maybe some forms of ML, even LLMs, become part of the solution to that shortfall, but we’re a long way from proving that’s a net positive let alone a big leap forward.
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I’m sorry but this is a bad take. We’re suffering from a healthcare crisis, globally. We don’t have nearly enough doctors. Even in the US where wait times are relatively low, it sometimes takes months to get an appointment with my PCP, let alone a specialist. And while I do sometimes feel when I see an NP at an urgent care like I could have used an LLM for all the time and attention they paid to my concerns, that’s not a compliment to the LLM.
Besides that 60-70% is not an acceptable hit rate and there’s already early evidence of skill atrophy in AI saturated fields like radiology. We need way more people offering more personalized care, using more judgement and offering more compassion, not a chat interface that says “you’re totally right to push back, the post nasal drip was the smoking gun.”
Maybe some forms of ML, even LLMs, become part of the solution to that shortfall, but we’re a long way from proving that’s a net positive let alone a big leap forward.