I haven’t even finished reading this article, granted sample size of one but OMG this is a HORRIBLE read on it.
Still not finished reading but:
They expressed their regret that Megan Garcia lost her son in such a tragic way but insist that they are not liable. Character.AI argues that liability for AI-generated conversations would violate the constitutional right to freedom of expression and that a ruling in favor of the plaintiff would have a "chilling effect” on the entire AI industry. Google claims that Character.AI is a separate company and that Shazeer and de Freitas did not develop the Character.AI model at Google.
About the response you’d expect.
12 years ago I picked my new job based on the thinking that AI would be taking jobs in my field (transportation), so I went with the hardest for AI to duplicate.
As I watch AI and interact with it a little, I think there is another field that should worry even more
Diagnostic Medicine. Specifically Diagnostic Medicine for men.
Most men don’t have a relation ship with their Doc
Paying $200+ for an office visit where the Doc sees you for 10 minutes after you spent an hour waiting is infuriating.
The AI won’t shame you for smoking or being fat.
If and AI was built using information from the top human docs in each Diagnostic area, the AI would be able (I think) to take all the time you needed to look at what concerned you with as good or better results then the average Doc, for like $20
You might think AI couldn’t But an AI they trained in skin cancer is already something like 10% more likely to pick a melanoma out of a group of moles then the Humans who do it.
Imagin $20, you get seen right away at 2;13 AM if it’s nothing you’re good. If whatever it was needs looked at Your AI books you an appointment and sends that human doc all the info.
I read an article just the other day from xxxx that was saying AI could replace doctors in 10 years.
Found it.
AI is as addictive as anything else. In a world where we treat mental illness with a pill (and then rely on the person to take the pill) there is no one thing more dangerous than another. Addiction can and is about anything, and it changes the way we think.
That article was a long read but the quotes from the chatbot showed a complete lack of a moral compass, especially when a minor is involved.
Im not sure you can program a moral compass.
You’re probably right, but the programmers had better be on their A game with theirs.
I see nowhere in the Constitution where the right to free speech is granted to AI.
One of the reasonings I had for “Specifically Diagnostic Medicine” is that at this time there would be no way to keep big Pharma and Government out of a treatment AI. They would find a way to corrupt the AI to treat as they want us treated. My hope (Dream/wish) is that an AI that gave no treatment advice & stuck to Diagnostic Medicine, might if carefully guarded be free enough of Government & Big Pharma to be useful.
Leads directly to where I was saying about the programmers being on their a game with their moral compass. We can only hope, That iteration in what I posted they fell short, very short, IMHO.
problem is the programmers are always going to be at fault.
There’s an awful lot of regular intelligence still needing to be done I reckon.
yes
Great post. Another effect this could have is saving people thousands of dollars in unnecessary testing and doctor guesswork. An AI with unlimited access to all medical research and history and the ability to instantaneously process it to come to conclusions would, at the very least, curb the amount of frustration patients have in the current diagnosis process.
It could also do wonders for the endless fight of medical procedures vs insurance coverage where docs are trying to sign you up for every expensive test and treatment while insurance companies are simultaneously trying to deny you coverage for it all, and you’re the one that loses on both ends.
Docs do not control treatment now. Insurance companies do. For all the benefit of AI, i hate to think of it having the decision of a life saving surgery vs the Obama solution of a pain pill.
Docs make suggestions, insurance companies say yes or no. Like I said, it’s a constant fight between the two but the one who loses is the patient.
Medication is a revenue stream, surgeries or cures are not. Even Microshaft copied the model with the Office Suite being subscription based now.
Meh. SCREW Bill Grates. He’s not a scientist, he’s not a Doctor, he’s not an elected official - he’s a guy that developed a bloated, buggy, criminally-invasive piece of software that he managed to Leverage against nearly every single computer manufacturer on the planet (including his Direct Competitor, Apple) then has used those Billions to adversely-affect people and governments, just so he could play the “Great White Father” to the third world.
Even if he’s 100% right about something - I’m still not going to listen to him, because his “Answers” are all couched in such a way as to drive outcomes toward a Totalitarian World.
AI is (for now at least) a tool. Like your pickup truck.
Now realize your Pickup looks the way it does & costs what it Costs, not because they made a Truck you would like, but because they made a Truck you would like that is the size and shape that can get past all the regulations the Government places on Pick up trucks. AI is one thing Good or Bad, AI with the governments thumb in the pie is nearly guarantied to be an evil on balance.