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by tmpz22 407 days ago
The problem is the healthcare industry will leverage this to place more responsibilities in the hands of increasingly less qualified individuals - as they're already doing with nurses. Costs will never go down, but the salary of healthcare professionals and quality of care will.

AI is a tool to transfer wealth from the middle class to the ultra wealthy. If there is a brief intermediary period where quality of life improves for the poor, it's a temporary coincidence that hasn't been optimized away yet.

Your. Costs. Will. Never. Go. Down. While. Maintaining. Equal. Service. In. The. Long. Term. That's. Not. What. Capitalists. Want.

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Exactly correct. So eventually we’ll pay a nurse’s aide to type prompts into GPT the same price for a visit where we used to see an MD (and then an NP, and then a PA, and then a BSN, and then an RN…), and get charged the same.
the amount of obvious astroturfing by people with investments in LLMs on this website is insane.

you only need to look at this thread alone to prove your point. this is a race to the bottom that we're being accelerated towards by some of the worst people on earth.