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This, surprisingly enough, can be a problem. Consider the self guiding vehicle. Now, consider the moral dilemma presented in the I Robot...

Interesting as well as mildly nostalgic for my late teens when I got through to FIST 1 (Final International Selection Test, the third...

More on the IMO Gold Medal. The two models that achieved gold aren't released to the public and many details are not known. However, the...

It’s neither “brilliant” nor “stupid” because it’s incapable of thinking. Which it the problem - people react to it as if it could...

Again, from my experience - telehealth means a lot of things, but it usually means synchronous remote communication (a phone call or...

Basic medical note - it’s reasonably common for chickenpox spots to become secondarily infected with bacteria, and it’s uncommon (but...

Purely anecdotal, so not provided as evidence of anything, but without prompting of any sort I was prescribed Penicillin for Chicken...

The problem is, people ARE trusting general purpose LLMs to make diagnoses or suggest dangerous self-help actions. We’ve seen that with...

There’s a reason why diagnostic programs are still significantly less accurate than living MDs.

This is my general viewpoint, because facts don’t care about feelings. Mary Mallon was insulted by and thus refused refused to abide by...

Intuition is the most important skill for diagnosing these. And that is acquired through experience.

There are at least 50 afflictions humans suffer that can cause “flu-like symptoms”, which vary greatly in rarity. Some have...

Eventually, I’m sure.

By the way, do we think there’s any chance of seeing The Magistrate’s Gambit in pdf form at some point? It sounds very interesting.

They are all excellent when executed well, and can all be utterly butchered when executed poorly. There is none that I would prefer a...