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LLM training is expensive, so are prompt ”engineers”. This will be the cheapest off-the-shelf LLM they can find, prompted by someone’s nephew. People will be eating glue.
The healthcare industry has the money to be innovative, and the massive lawsuit risks to do it safely. I agree with the person you're replying to, and feel that your sarcastic dismissive response is probably a knee jerk reaction to anything AI you come across
But why use money to innovate when there is profit to be made and laws are just made up?
AI is the new kid on the block, trying to make a dent in our society. So far, we don’t really have that many useful or productive deployments. It’s on AI to prove it’s worth, and it’s kinda worthless until proven otherwise. (Name one interaction with a commercially deployed AI model you didn’t hate?)
So far, Apple is failing with consumer products, Microsoft is backing off on GPU-orders, research showing commercial GenAI isn’t increasing productivity, NVDA seems to cool off and you expect the benevolent commercial health care industry to come to the rescue?
Yeah, I’ll keep my knee jerk reaction and keep living with my current socialised health care.
AI helped me write papers in college, helped write letters to relatives, helped me create a very successful GoFundMe when my grandfather was hospitalized, helped me self diagnose a skin condition, and helped my mental health when I couldn't see a therapist. There are 5 interactions with commercially deployed AI models I didn't hate. There are a lot more.
I’m using ”Commercially deployed” in the context of ”company you interacted with had an AI represent them in that communication”. You don’t use AI for that to increase costumer satisfaction. (I wonder why I haven’t seen any AI products targeted at automated B2B sales?)
I won’t argue that GenAI isn’t useful for end consumers using it properly. It is.
(As an aside, I hope you and your grandfather get better!)