Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans - KFF Health News
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Despite the hype over artificial intelligence in medicine, the systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and maintain. Checking whether an algorithm has developed the software equivalent of a blown gasket can be complicated — and expensive.
  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Guess what!

    When accuracy matters, the labor cost of babysitting the LLM’s output is the same as doing the work yourself. That’s before you even consider having to unfuck it after it paints itself into a corner and ruins its own model.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I feel like any AI tool that’s being sold as saving you money just won’t do that. Some of the ones that sell improved detection rates might.

    AI that works as a tool designed to be used by an existing or new professional to augment their abilities works as well as any other tool. An ultrasound doesn’t save you money except in the abstract of being more freely usable than x-ray allowing for more checks with less equipment.
    A tool that highlights concerning areas on a mammogram isn’t replacing a person anymore than the existing tools that highlight concerning heart rhythms.

    Trying to get llms to replace people, particularly when it comes to trying to explain the content of a potentially technical medical discussion is just not going to be reliable.