… or giving a “useful agent” data they wouldn’t give their friends.
My wife just had ChatGPT make her a pill-taking plan. It did a fantastic job, taking into account meals, diet, sleep, and several pills with different constraints and contraindications. It also found that she was taking her medication incorrectly, which explained some symptoms she’s been having.
I don’t know if it’s the friendly helpful agent tone, but she didnt even question giving over data which in another setting might cause a medical pro to lose their license, if it saved her an hour on a saturday.
> It did a fantastic job, taking into account meals, diet, sleep, and several pills with different constraints and contraindications.
How do you know though? I mean, it tells me all kinds of stuff that sound good about things I'm an expert in that I know are wrong. How do you know it hasn't done the same with your wife's medications? Seems like not a good thing to put your trust in if it can't reliably get things correct you know to be true.
You say it explained your wife's symptoms, but that's what it's designed to do. I'm assuming she listed her symptoms into the system and asked for help, so it's not surprising it started to talk about them and gave suggestions for how to alleviate them.
But I give it parameters for code to implement all the time and it can't reliably give me code that parses let alone works.
So what's to say it's not also giving a medication schedule that "doesn't parse" under expert scrutiny?
What could go wrong with consulting ChatGPT for health and dietary matters…
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your wife is going to trust an llm to make medical decisions for her?
Don't worry. This trait will be gone from the population in just a few generations...
People have bought snake oil since the dawn of time. People have blindly followed diet/medical/lifestyle influencers since long before the internet. It's not going away. I'm sure you have seen some plum on the internet say "Let food be thy medicine" before.
Steve Jobs lmao