Comment on OpenEvidence Sounds Promising, but is it Reliable?
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoThe grading is a mess. It goes about qualitative, quantitative… and statistical corrections “to make it fair”.
Anyway, there is ~30% margin on the scores for passing, so chances are that 9% is better than the worst doctor who still “passed”.
liv@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
I’d hope the bar for medical advice is higher than “better than the worst doctor”.
Will be interesting to see where liability lies with this one. In the example given, following the advice could permanently worsen patients.
Given that the advice is proven to be wrong and goes against official medical guidance for doctors, that could potentially be material for a class action lawsuit.
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
It’s like in the joke: “What do you call someone who barely finished medical school?.. Doctor.”
Every doctor is allowed to provide medical advice, even those who should better shut up. Liabilities are like what a friend got after a botched operation, when confronting her doctor: “Sue me, that’s what my insurance is for”.
I’d like to see the actual final assessment of an AI on these tests, but if it’s just “9% vs 15% error rate”, I’d take it.
My guess would be the AI might not be great at all kinds of assessments, but having a panel of specialized AIs, like we now have multiple specialist cooperating, sounds like a reasonable idea. Having a transcript of such meeting analyzed by a GP, could be even better.
liv@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
I take your point. The version I heard of that joke is “the person who graduated at the bottom of their class in med school”.
Still, at the moment we can try to avoid those doctors. I’m concerned about the popularizing and replication of bad advice to extend to others.
The problem here is this tool is being marketed to GPs, not patients, so you wouldn’t necessarily know where the opinion is coming from.
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
There is no realistic way of avoiding those doctors. I’ve been to a GP who, after looking at my medical history and the meds I was taking after a heart attack… slid me a business card for her homeopathic healing practice. 🙄
Still, I’d hope a majority of doctors would be more likely to be able to parse through an AI’s advice, and take it into consideration, but not blindly depend on it, when giving their own advice.
Targeting it at GPs makes sense, since they’re supposed to “know of everything”, but no person is capable of doing that, definitely not of staying up to date on everything. Specialists have a narrower area of knowledge to keep up with, but could also benefit from some AI advice based on latest research.