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0 pointske88y2y ago0 comments

However useful his advice might be, Andrew Huberman isn't a doctor (of medicine).

Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine. Medical diagnosis and treatment are different from more typical uses of LLMs in lots of important ways.

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pstuart2y ago

Yeah, I was kind of tangential there, but it's strongly related.

Health and longevity is addressed from the other side of medicine. For example, a doctor could diagnose and prescribe medicine of one's type 2 diabetes, but in many of those cases that need is removed by following healthy practices (e.g., not being fat).

But back to the OP -- it seems like well-crafted LLMs could be idiot-savant helpers to guide doctors and ease their load.

haldujai2y ago

> Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine.

Do you mean basic science research? Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians.

https://www.royalcollege.ca/ca/en/canmeds/canmeds-framework/...

ke88yOP2y ago

> Do you mean basic science research?

No, I mean actual diagnosis and treatment.

> Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians.

But it's a very different activity from diagnosis and treatment, which look much more like sequential decision-making and hypothesis-testing than like question-answering.

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