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by cantrevealname 54 days ago
I agree with construction and auto repair, but why psychology and psychiatry? If there's anything that's perfect for LLMs, it self-diagnosis and self-treatment by chatting with them. Other than prescribing drugs, an AI system could do everything a psychologist or psychiatrist does.

The only significant barrier is that it's not condoned by the medical establishment and by law (which I imagine will indeed take a few years to work around).

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Those are good points, and true to be sure. But I specified that in the short term they are future proof. Long term, no one can predict.

I, just feel like LLMs are not currently at the point where the medical profession can trust them with most things medical, including a psychological diagnosis since they are habitually hallucinating. This is why some of the medical professions, including those mentioned above, are safe in the short term, more or less. By the way, you can see the disclaimers by all these chat agents that they are not medical professionals. It's more of legal-protection clause than caring advice, obviously

One wrong diagnosis or comment, and the patient could either do self-harm or harm others, given the lack of real care available and the amount of people suffering from mental illnesses, due to societal pressures.

Honestly, given the pace of all things AI, I don't see any profession to be AI-proof.