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Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 by pixl97 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:12PM (#42562236)
>don’t ask a language model to diagnose your medical condition

Honestly they are very decent at it if you give them accurate information in which to make the diagnosis. The typical problem people have is being unable to feed accurate information to the model. They'll cut out parts they don't want to think about or not put full test results in for consideration.

Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 by LtWorf on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:43AM (#42564576)
Yes so basically bias it into what you think it should reply in the question and it will magically somehow give the reply you wanted! Very useful :D
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 by ninth_ant on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:51PM (#42567679)
If the LLM is trained on accurate medical data and you provide accurate symptoms data, then the LLM can be a useful tool to output the information in a human-readable way.

This is not a diagnosis. Any reasonably capable person can read webmd and apply the symptoms listed and compare them to what the patient describes. This is widely regarded as dangerous because the input data as well as the patient data are limited in ways that can be medically relevant.

So even if you can use it as a good substitute for browsing webmd, it’s still not a substitute for seeing a medical professional. And for the foreseeable future it will not be.

Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 by capr on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:07AM (#42609584)
compared to what? most doctors never heard of Bayes rule