Tade0an hour ago
> Strangely, there were many times where ChatGPT decided it would answer our medical question, but not in the form of a TV medical script. The tides had completely turned!
I've noticed this happens a lot with characters that don't have any long lines and/or have limited vocabulary.
Furby trails off pretty quickly, Abathur from StarCraft 2 (great for shortening code comments BTW) starts talking like a typical LLM after a few sentences.
mock-possum33 minutes ago
Holy shit are you me?? I just did a little side project last week to get my Claude code agents to RP as Abathur with me. Same results for me, it works for the first couple responses, but very quickly regresses to the mean. I tried writing out a prose/voice guide, I didn’t need it to use actual Abathur quotes, but it never seems to stick. I think there’s a thing the caveman mode does that re-injects the instructions to keep it in line, I haven’t gotten around to experimenting with anything yet though.
largbae4 minutes ago
Plot twist: GP _is_ you.
simonw23 minutes ago
The more time I spend with the US medical system, the more I realize that nobody cares about your health as much as you do, and you really do need to learn how to engage with it, understand what's happening, and then decode how the system works and actively advocate for your own care.
It doesn't matter how great your doctors are, you're still only going to get an hour or so of their time per month if you are REALLY lucky.
Navigating this is really hard. The more AI assistance I can get the better.
bradknowles9 minutes ago
Most people don’t understand this fact. Some of us are lucky enough to have friends or family that can help us as a health advocate. There are even people who work as health advocates as a profession.
You are the only person you can truly depend on when it comes to advocating for yourself and your health. But if you know that you are not properly equipped to do that job, then you need to get yourself a good health advocate. It’s like hiring a lawyer, but for your health.
Sadly, yes — that is what our healthcare system has devolved into.
cortesoft4 minutes ago
> the more I realize that nobody cares about your health as much as you do
This is going to be true in all medical systems, and really in all systems for all fields.
No one else (other than maybe your immediate family) is going to care as much about your situation as you are. Any doctor, in any system, is going to have multiple patients, and they will care about all of them. You, an individual, is going to care about your own life because it is the most important thing to you, and you aren’t splitting that amongst many different patients.
ForHackernews27 minutes ago
This story is written like it vindicates AI medicine but really it seems like the human medical system dropped the ball on the MRI. ChatGPT didn't have any brilliant insight, it just (eventually) suggested the same thing a human doctor had already suggested, but this time the author and his wife pushed harder for it to happen.
To use the metaphor from the article, they found the keys in the last place they looked.
sa464 minutes ago
> but this time the author and his wife pushed harder for it to happen
This is the essence of how to make the medical system work for you. Advocate for yourself. AI helps know what to ask, why you should ask, and how to get past the first few layers of dismissals.
Den_VR7 minutes ago
Doctors don’t need brilliant insight, they need to essentially leverage human medical knowledge against unwellness in human beings. This is confounded by two measures: too many patients per doctor, and too much human medical knowledge.
saulpw23 minutes ago
I mean if "AI medicine via chatbot" gets better results than the human medical system, I'd say that vindicates it..
peesem18 minutes ago
this is one case. there's no proof here that AI will generally do better than human doctors. consider also that the power it has to convince people to push for better medical treatments can also be used to push for worse ones, or to halt standard treatment entirely, at which point it is much harder for the medical system to intervene as they aren't interacting with doctors.
bradknowles5 minutes ago
There is some evidence that has been collected so far that, taken across large sample sizes, good AI systems are now better at diagnosing certain diseases, etc…. We started here with Mycin and e-Mycin back in the 60s. Hopefully, these systems can now start to be better integrated into modern medicine systems.
However, the real problem is that modern AI systems still hallucinate. And there is not yet any evidence that I’ve seen that AI systems can be trusted to work at these levels of efficiency and correctness at the tactical single-patient level, as opposed to the strategic population level.
I think lots more work needs to be done here.
djaboss12 minutes ago
> Even if you’re paying a gazillion dollars for IVF treatments, you still only get a few precious moments to talk to your doctor every visit. That’s just how the US medical system works. If you want to plumb the depths of what treatments are possible, or ask super detailed and anxiety ridden questions about every single scan from the latest round of imaging, you’re going to want a chatbot by your side.
Ehm, no. I want doctors by my side working in a system that is not meant to be producing gains for the rich investors but to help the sick and sad.
Just imagine what could be done with all those billions poured into datacenters and GPUs, if they were invested in public goods like a decent health system!
cortesoft9 minutes ago
Sure, that is what we want, but I am not sure what you expected OP to do? Put his life on hold, skip trying for a baby, and dedicate his life to trying to change a system that people have been fighting to change unsuccessfully for decades?
OP is playing the cards he has been dealt, not wishing that he was playing a completely different game.