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The good news: These models are never LLMs, because LLMs can never be anything else than bullshit generators.
The bad news: The first studies of actual performance seem to indicate a similar pattern in hospitals to what is seen with the AI hype all the time: While people often perceive themselves to be more efficient, actual efficiency might in fact drop. It turns out that four Polish hospitals that started using machine learning models to detect cancer actually found fewer instances of cancer as a result, not more. It might of course improve as the technology gets better, and it could supplement instead of replace human expertise. But the story "AI is amazing for detecting cancer" is sadly not as clear-cut as we have been lead to believe.
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Thats interesting. Yes, I've even seen it my work people think they are more efficient using it until I review their work and its full of mistakes.
The study isn't about how good so-called AI is at detecting cancer. The study is about how these doctors lose the ability to spot cancer after having delegated the spotting part of their difficult jobs to a model. They looked at the numbers before the introduction, while using it, and then when they took this assistance away. This study can say something about these doctors' behavior. I don't think it proves so-called AI is shit at it. It's more about how humans get lazy. Roughly six generations ago people could recite poetry from memory, know the dates of historical importance, and remember 50 phone numbers. Now we're like eff that I got those in my phone plus Wikipedia access. It's more like that.