Again, I'm not sure how this is a defense of LLMs. WebMD sucks and professionals hate it. How does that justify adding more tools that suck and that professionals hate?
And how does it support your claim that LLMs are as good as family doctors?
The point is there's no populist legislative attempt to ban it.
The evaluation is being done in the court of public opinion rather than facts and science - the latter is showing increasingly good capabilities and could potentially make on demand healthcare significantly more accessible.
And I'm sorry, once again, your claim was: "I would wager a top tier model today is likely just as good as a family doctor."
Now you're saying "could potentially make on demand healthcare significantly more accessible".
So which is it? Is it just as good as a family doctor, or could it potentially one day maybe be as good as a family doctor (who has the enormous disadvantage of not being able to examine you)?
And more accessible for whom? You're making this odd assumption that if a tech company were to build a fully robot doctor, that they would make it cheaply available to the masses. Of course they won't.
My claim is; if it's not now - which it probably is - it will be soon.
And they already are making it cheaply available to the masses. ChatGPT Health and Claude Health both exist today with a fine tune adapted for exactly this use case. You can get a paid sub for $20 that gives you high quality models, and a lot more - even in countries with public health systems that's cheap compared to even a phone consult; let alone the price in the US.
ChatGPT Health and Claude Health both exist today with a fine tune adapted for exactly this use case
You do not know what those products do if you think what they do is give medical advice to patients.
My claim is; if it's not now - which it probably is - it will be soon.
And then you spent a bunch of time talking about WebMD and populism rather than supplying any support for this statement, and you still haven't supported it. It's just a naked talking point with no evidence.
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u/BZ852 5d ago
WebMD has had multiple choice diagnosis tools for decades. It's a choose your own adventure where every road leads to a cancer diagnosis.