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ACCount37today at 8:27 AM2 repliesview on HN

Modern LLMs routinely beat human doctors at diagnosing "extremely rare edge cases".

They have unmatched breadth of knowledge by default, and can maintain attention across entire medical histories.


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multjoytoday at 8:35 AM

Citation very much needed.

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fn-motetoday at 8:42 AM

> Modern LLMs routinely beat human doctors at diagnosing "extremely rare edge cases".

There is a selection bias here. Not saying it wouldn’t work, but right now you hear about exceptional cases, not when the LLM wants to amputate for a wart.

We all work with LLMs, right? It hasn’t been long at all since an LLM gaslit me while attempting to recover an unbootable laptop. I should have been recommended a few simple steps to try; instead, it was unable to ignore the irrelevant details and led me on an hours-long chase. To me that means the LLM will also struggle to ignore irrelevant medical information.