alt Hacker News> AI can create some efficiencies, but it almost certainly solves fewer healthcare or education problems than most AI maximalists believe.
Do you have any information to back this claim up?
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The vast majority of modern medical practice is not diagnosing one-in-a-million conditions that escaped the attention of the rest of the medical establishment. It's increasingly about geriatric care, including dealing with people of diminished mental acuity. Add to this ~20% of the population who believes that vaccines cause chemtrails and you're really not solving a lot by giving people a sycophantic chatbot not beholden by consequences of its actions, willing to entertain any theory of what might be wrong with me.
Again, I think AI has applications in these niches - I really don't think we need doctors personally prescribing viagra or itch cream - but a lot of healthcare is people management.
The claims of said maximalists are extraordinary and thus require extraordinary evidence.
Dismissing them otoh does not.
Vibes. All headlines and vibes.
He doesn't need to have it, because his comment is carefully crafted to not say anything other than signaling anti-AI sentiment.
Of course AI "almost certainly" solves fewer problems than the people that think AI can solve all the problems think. That doesn't mean anything. Also notice how he puts together "AI didn't help" and "AI caused harm", and then says that's the most common experience.