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lucfrankentoday at 5:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Why wouldn’t you as a doctor by standard run the images through a certified compliant LLM? The actual cost won’t be it and then you can see if you get any new ideas from it. See if it’s just wrong or that it spotted a little detail you missed?

The LLM doesn’t need to be leading or whatever but then you can have a conversation with the patient. If their ChatGPT reports has differences it can be analyzed as well.

It feels like the time constraint of the 15m doctor sessions is the thing. But if prepared immediately after the scan then why not?

There is always time needed to factor in new developments and innovations and that’s fine. Just moving blindly work from human to LLM is wrong. But learning on and testing with all the ai tools incoming constantly won’t be a waste. There will be more and more tools in those processes outside of human judgement, better improve the workflows now to be able to test and plugin new models and systems when they are ready.


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KaiserProtoday at 5:57 PM

> standard run the images through a certified compliant LLM?

Because they don't exist, yet.

In the UK MRIs and other imaging systems need two opinions. there has been a move to allow the first opinion to be ML based.

The _problem_ is that you are basically doing grey smudge analysis, and thats fucking hard.

foobariantoday at 5:55 PM

I've been starting to think of LLM as a great tool for "lead generation," borrowing a term from sales. Most of the things it comes up with don't pan out, but in many cases it's things we wouldn't have thought of, or at least not as quickly. This is especially in the context of web service or SAAS outages.

yreadtoday at 6:11 PM

Because they might bias you. And because you have your own brain, training and experience