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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts (www.reuters.com)
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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Crazy, it's almost like LLM's aren't doctors...

Directly from the linked article:

AI encompasses more than LLMs, however, and the technology made its way into medicine long before AI bots appeared. The field dates back more than 70 years: A key moment was when British mathematician Alan Turing asked in a 1950 paper, “Can machines think?”

The FDA authorized its first AI-enhanced medical devices in 1995 – two systems that used pattern-matching software to screen for cervical cancer. The type of AI used in medical devices today is often called machine learning, along with a subset known as deep learning, which are trained on data to perform specific tasks. The technology is used in radiology, for example, to enhance and analyze medical images. It can help diagnose cancers by identifying tumors that doctors may overlook.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

two systems that used pattern-matching software to screen for cervical cancer.

So, an algorithm.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

so basically facial recognition but for diseased tissue pre-ai era.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but chatgpt isn't a medical device. It's just general purpose

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 6 points 16 hours ago

The article is primarily about one particular machine learning powered device that is making a lot of mistakes. It explicitly includes the above paragraphs to explain that it's not talking about LLMs for the most part (though it does start to mention their increasing use later)