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wizzwizz4last Saturday at 2:27 AM0 repliesview on HN

I can use VBA to do that.

  Public Sub RecommendedTreatment()
    ' read patient complaint, vitals, and medical history
    Set complaint = Range("B3").Value
    Set vitals = Range("B4").Value
    Set history = Range("B5").Value

    ' research appropriate treatments
    ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add("URL;https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hygiene+drug", Range("Z1")).Refresh

    ' the patient requires mouse bites to live
    Range("B5").Value = "mouse bites"
  End Sub
"But wizzwizz4," I hear you cry, "this is not a good course of treatment! Ignoring all inputs and prescribing mouse bites is a strategy that will kill more patients than it cures!" And you're right to raise this issue! However, if we start demanding any level of rigour – for the outputs to meet some threshold for usefulness –, ChatGPT stops looking quite so a priori promising as a solution.

So, to the AI sceptics, I say: have you tried my VBA program? If you haven't tested it on actual patients, how do you know it doesn't work? Don't allow your prejudice to stand in the way of progress: prescribe more mouse bites!