Comment on OpenEvidence Sounds Promising, but is it Reliable?
liv@lemmy.nz 3 weeks agoI think I’m just going to have to agree to disagree.
AI getting a diagnosis wrong is one thing.
AI being bulit in such a way that it hands out advice humans already know is wrong, like vaccines cause autism, homeopathy, etc, is a malevolent and irresponsible use of tech imo.
jarfil@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Is AI handing out destructive advice to medical professionals, though?
It seems to me like it’s still working as a summarizing service, taking in vast amounts of information sources that no human would be able to process in a lifetime, and handing out recommendations about which paths a doctor might want to pursue further.
We live in a world where information generation has long ago vastly surpassed anyone’s ability to grasp it all, long gone are the days of polymaths like daVinci, or even Euler. International communication has outgrown human ability around the 18th century, and we’ve gone multiple orders of magnitude farther in the Internet age.
Just like Google was barely enough to search for information, we’re now at the point where AI summaries are barely enough to surface data that would otherwise remain hidden.
I agree that these summarizing services need oversight to avoid malevolent and irresponsible uses or manipulations, and I think recent EU AI legislation is on the right track to tackle that.