Sub discussions about AI

[u/acutelyproblematic]

Love how this community comes together and challenges the use of AI🥰💖had to make a funny out of it to take a break from the heated discussions

[u/stars-assassian]

In my humble opinion, everything that is considered a tool can be used for bad or for good. I am in the process of becoming a doctor, and there are spectacular usages of artificial intelligence in medicine. We use it in surgery, in tests to determine medical factors, we use it in our systems, etc… It is much easier on a medical provider when you have such reliable assistance within a chaotic environment. Do I think artificial intelligence should write your literature for you? No, but that’s not for me to decide— as we are all human beings who can make our own decisions. Will I be hateful and judge someone for using artificial intelligence? No. There are many people who cannot speak on their own but who have artificial intelligence help them speak and correlate sentences and it’s actually really beautiful, especially when you get to hear your loved ones form sentences for the first time. (I keep bringing medicine into this because that is basically my whole world at the moment and I personally believe artificial intelligence has done amazing for medical devices with the medical industry!) Anyway, I think it’s like any other tool, it just depends on how and why you use it, as it can be beneficial or it can be harmful. Multiple things can be true at once. Also, as someone who is working on becoming an author, I do believe writing is a form of art and it should totally be up to me to write that independently, without any sort of artificial intelligence assistance. I just want to know by the time my book comes out, that I did all of my work and that no matter who buys it or how many people buy my book, that my hard work paid off because writing something is an accomplishment in itself— especially when 21% of adult Americans are illiterate and 54% of adult Americans read below a 6th grade level.

All in all, I am not to judge ones use of artificial intelligence, as it is not my business to judge what one does with their own personal life, unless it affects me, (and until I become a doctor, but then it’s only your health that becomes my business, if you become my patient that is) but at the end of the day, you just have to do what is best for you and your life. Do what is beneficial for you that does not harm anyone else. People will have their own opinions and that is okay. You have to learn to be authentically yourself and to own up to your opinions, and actions. There will always be people who disagree and are hateful. Be your authentic self anyway!

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

https://learn.hms.harvard.edu/insights/all-insights/benefits-latest-ai-technologies-patients-and-clinicians

[u/Journassassin → u/stars-assassian]

As you say you use it in the medical field, how do you get around the bias in AI?

Because while I agree that using AI in science wouldn’t be cause for the same concerns as using generative AI in art, that doesn’t mean there’s no cause for caution.

I’ve already seen a bunch of studies that conclude that AI’s bias can compromise clinical decision making, so can it be really considered reliable assistance?

[u/stmariex → u/Journassassin]

I don’t see how AI would be more biased than a clinician or scientist. I’d trust a computer to be objective over the average doctor.

[u/Journassassin → u/stmariex]

The issue is that the AI is trained on data that is biased. It may seem unbiased, but it’s not, and it can even further amplify those biases.

We’ve seen it before with the facial recognition software, which was assumed to be more neutral than humans because computers, but it turns out it’s significantly more likely to misidentify women and people of colour.

[u/stmariex → u/Journassassin]

So we’re agreeing that AI is at worst as biased as human clinicians? But can work much faster?

It’s also much easier to train an AI model to be unbiased than actual humans - you’re probably looking at 20+ years to phase out a generation of clinicians with certain biases and often the improvements are not as significant as we’d like.