Google says doctors prefer its answers, even if they’re less accurate.
  • ugh@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    That’s going to be frustrating as fuck. The last thing I want to deal with in the ER is argue with a chat bot.

  • Psiczar@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    You can kiss goodbye ever getting any kind of health or life insurance once you’ve been diagnosed by Dr Google with a serious illness.

      • Psiczar@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Fortunately I do, but if they are going to use AI for medical purposes it needs to be operated by a company that won’t start spamming me with ads for adult nappies/diapers after I’ve had my prostate out.

        • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          If AI can improve diagnostics it would be a huge win for everyone, since we have a lack of doctors and the one we have are overworked. For the diapers adds, there is always adblock.

          • Psiczar@aussie.zoneEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Agreed, but I want it run by a medical company, not an ad company. While I run an ad blocker, I don’t want Google to have the data in the first place.

            • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Fair enough. Pretty sure it wont work with EU regulations anyway - patient data, at least in Germany is rather well protected, to a point it’s even hard doing research.

              • Psiczar@aussie.zoneEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Don’t have the same level of privacy protection in Australia as the EU, but medical data is still relatively well protected from commercial entities.

  • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s interesting, since a big part of medicine study is memorising fuck ton of information, while becoming a “good” doctor is allot about practical experience.