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A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They studied 52 doctors responses to standardized (read publicly available online) cases written in front of them.
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Then they ran 3 trials solely with LLM and find that these were significantly better.

How do they know that the answers to the "standardized" publically available case studies were not in the training data of the LLM? Isn't it extremely likely that they were?

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's very likely that they were in the training data. I forgot to include that as a point. Unfortunately, though, that's a very difficult variable to control in the LLM research.