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Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by majormajor on Saturday June 14, 2025 @12:56PM (#44277427)
AI would be deployed to behave like the median doctor (at best - or maybe the lowest-common-denominator) to avoid blowing up costs with 99%-likely-to-turn-up-nothing hunts for super-rare conditions.

Today you can try to cajole your human doctor into listening more, or ordering more tests, or considering things you heard online or from acquaintances. AI will be guided to take that into account less because a doctor being more sympathetic and bypassing "standard practice" is an expense caused by humanity that the machine can be trained to avoid.

Today you can go across town and try your luck with another doctor. If it's all AI, you'll just repeat your story to the same basic model and get the same basic dismissal.

The problem arose from trying to make people behave like machines in order to save money. Making a machine behave like a machine ain't gonna help.

You need to shift the goal from "saving money" to "helping people." AI doesn't do that.

Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by KaoruAoiShiho on Saturday June 14, 2025 @01:15PM (#44277530)
The costs are so low you can easily inference a bit longer. The idea that a computer would be as lazy as a human is not even close to reality.
Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by nemomarx on Saturday June 14, 2025 @01:39PM (#44277656)
Not the cost of running the ai, the cost of potential tests and medical treatment if they do find something, I think?
Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by KaoruAoiShiho on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:53PM (#44278045)
Nah those make money not cost money (for providers).
Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by sfn42 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:03PM (#44277773)
You can do an obscene amount of inference for a fraction of the cost of an average doctor's appointment.