Yes. But you could also get terrible advice from a doctor. The important question is: what are the relative probabilities of good/bad advice, if you compare a frontier LLM to an average doctor?
Doctor is 10 minutes, doesn’t listen and then 6 month for new appointment.
The choice is easy, LLM to explore. Doctors to prescribe.
Fair point. I haven't queried LLMs for medical advice myself, so I can't compare.
For doctors, I must be an outlier who's been happy with almost all the advice I've been given. And it wasn't blind trust. I've argued with them and even sought second opinions. They always turned out to be right.
Well, technically there have been a few cases where different doctors came up with different diagnoses, but to me the LLM would just be "yet another doctor with yet another differing diagnosis". Never resolved those cases - some still haven't been resolved (i.e. issue remains, so in a sense they were all wrong). Others got resolved but it wasn't clear which, if any, of the doctors were right - it may well have resolved on its own.
Now nurses and physical therapists ... that's a different story.
Tell that to Jack, who overdosed on a medication.
Oh, you can't. Jack is dead.
I don't think anyone is claiming you can't get good advice from a chatbot. They're saying you could also get terrible advice.