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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (self.technology)
submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix to c/technology
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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Medical use is absolutely revolutionary. From GP's consultations to reading tests results, radios, AI is already better than humans and will be getting better and better.

Computers are exceptionally good at storing large amount of data, and with ML they are great at taking a lot of input and inferring a result from that. This is essentially diagnosing in a nutshell.

[–] yesman 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I read that one LLM was so good at detecting TB from Xrays that they reverse engineered the "black box" code hoping for some insight doctors could use. Turns out, the AI was biased toward the age of the Xray machine that took each photo because TB is more common in developing countries that have older equipment. Womp Womp.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A large language model was used to detect TB in X-ray? Do you not just mean Machine Learning?

[–] ViscloReader 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What's TB?

[–] DrakeRichards 6 points 9 months ago

Tuberculosis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Tuberculosis

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

Watch any video at random by John Green (vlogbrothers, and author of several successful books that I haven't read) and you'll know more than you could ever hope about TB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That’s super interesting, TIL

[–] fiddlestix 7 points 9 months ago

I hadn't considered this. It's interesting stuff. My old doctor used to just Google stuff in front of me and then repeat the info as if I hadn't been there for the last five minutes.