AI Doctors 3x More Expensive Than Human
A new NEJM AI study shows that leading LLMs recommend clinical care costing 3.2x more than human physicians, driven by ordering lab tests on cases where human doctors order nothing.
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A new NEJM AI study shows that leading LLMs recommend clinical care costing 3.2x more than human physicians, driven by ordering lab tests on cases where human doctors order nothing.
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated they can do many things well enough, it’s important to remember that these are not “thinking machines” so much as impressively competent “writing machines” (able to figure out what words are likely to follow). Case in point: both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot lost to the chess playing engine of an old Atari game...
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know the tech industry has been rocked by the rapid advance in performance by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. By adapting self-supervised learning methods, LLMs “learn” to sound like a human being by learning how to fill in gaps in language and, by doing so, become remarkably adept at solving not just language problems but...