On 4/3/25 16:21, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
At 10:22 PM 4/1/2025, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Apparently, some think that within 10 years, AI will replace doctors and
teachers:
It's one thing to say that AI methods have been shown to give better
diagnoses in some situations than the humans, it's quite another to
suggest we won't need doctors. In my neck of the woods, even doctors
have been greatly supplanted by physician assistants.
I'm as skeptical as they come, and I have plenty of criticisms of AI
as implemented today, but I've also been confounded to discover how
useful it can be when programming. It's often better than googling and
copy-and-pasting from Stackoverflow.
I am also skeptical. I am a minor developer on the LinuxCNC
project and somebody suggested getting chatGPT to come up
with a script for setting the I?O side of that up. Since
this is a VERY niche project, I didn't expect it to do
much. I was amazed that it created a script that a cursory
scan indicated it might actually work!
Our IT guy at work swears by chatGPT. He was trying to
debug some issues with VirtualBox setup after a kernel
upgrade on my Linux desktop. (My fix is to disable ALL
updates). Anyway, he was going crazy, and wasted about TWO
DAYS trying to fix it! I went straight to the Oracle web
site and downloaded the update file, and then typed the
commands exactly as shown on their update page, and it
worked perfectly! I am guessing that chatGPT was making a
response based on previous versions of the software, and
those were just wrong for the latest version.
So, I've seen both.
As for PAs, my regular doctor was out of town, I had a rash
on my side and went to an urgent care place, the PA there
totally misdiagnosed it, and it got worse. Then, I went to
a dermatologist, he took a sample of scrapings off the rash,
diagnosed it correctly, and the prescription solved it. Not
sure my regular doctor would have been able to diagnose it
either.
Jon
