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by swatcoder 549 days ago
> Put this in a pharmacy - have people hit a button, and ask questions about over-the-counter medications.

Even if you trust OpenAI's models more than your trained, certified, and insured pharmacist -- the pharmacists, their regulators, and their insurers sure won't!

They've got a century of sunk costs to consider (and maybe even some valid concern over the answers a model might give on their behalf...)

Don't be expecting anything like that in an traditional regulated medical setting any time soon.

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The last few doctors appointments I’ve had, the clinician used a service to record and summarize the visit. It was using some sort of TTS and LLM to do so. It’s already in medical settings.
Transcription and summary is a vastly different thing than providing medical advice to patients.