Episode 9: Call the AI Quack Doctor, February 17, 2023

Should the mathy-maths be telling doctors what might be wrong with you? And can they actually help train medical professionals to treat human patients? Alex and Emily discuss the not-so-real medical and healthcare applications of ChatGPT and other large language models.

Plus another round of fresh AI hell, featuring "charisma as a service," and other assorted reasons to tear your hair out.

This episode was first recorded on February 17th of 2023.

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References:
Glass.ai (glass.ai) makes “diagnosis machine”:
twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/162012862182131…
Percy Liang claims 'PubMedGPT' can pass medical exams:
crfm.stanford.edu/2022/12/15/pubmedgpt.html
twitter.com/percyliang/status/1603469265583353…
Emily's reaction to the above:
twitter.com/emilymbender/status/16037663818075…
ChatGPT gets 60 percent of questions right in US Medical Licensing Exam:
healthitanalytics.com/news/chatgpt-passes-us-m…
An Apple Watch error is clogging up 911 lines:
nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-…
ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here?
statnews.com/2023/02/13/chatgpt-assisted-diagn…
NVIDIA “eye contact” demo:
twitter.com/Jousefm2/status/1616878021280993284
“Theory of the mind":
twitter.com/LChoshen/status/162357542365213901…
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