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by Out_of_Characte 483 days ago
To be fair, This is what AI is good at. No matter what problem you're trying to solve, AI will provide a solution.

In this case, lab result analysis was entirely based around standard care protocols that LLM is really good at regurgitating back to you.

Yeah sure, anyone could probaly promt feed this into a homeopathy solution which would have killed the patient as per their own predisposed will. You could argue a standard programmatic diagnostic evaluation would be better but its not entirely clear wether human decision making improves based on webMD above an agitated Chatgpt urging you to seek professional help.

And now that I think about it more, no one except doctors and AI could reliably improve diagnosis based on a picture and lab results side by side. So if your healthcare system doesn't provide a response then chatgpt might actually be the closest neighbour in time of need.