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by fny 1356 days ago
I already use GPT for this purpose, and it works terrifyingly well. You can even ask it for citations, and it provides you with a link.

Beware--it's prone to bullshitting. This one time I asked it for the symptoms for pulmonary hypertension: shortness of breath, chest pain, lightheadedness, and fainting. Check. Then I asked it for a citation...

It linked me to an article on hemorrhoids.

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Or is it smarter than all of us and detecting some link between pulmonary hypertension and hemorrhoids.
"This study showed that patients with hemorrhoids displayed a 27% increased risk of CHD after adjustment for the confounding factors. Risk factors for the development of CHD are more common among subjects with hemorrhoids than those without hemorrhoids except for diabetes mellitus."

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/fulltext/2017/08040/asso...

> it's prone to bullshitting.

We may be closer to human-level AGI than I thought.

Can you post your prompt/params ?