I mean, it does THINGS, that's the same as doing work, right? Whatever it is all those peasants get up to when I'm not breathing down their necks. Anyway, why doesn't anyone want to work anymore?
Workplace unions should be all over banning AI from workplaces, its a fundamentally anti-human product that compromises worker and public rights, freedoms and outcomes.
I'm currently in the middle of using OpenAI's Whisper to do speech recognition of hundreds of hours of conference talks. It's impressive what it can do, but it makes up entire sentences that no one said.
as someone who used to make a living as a medical transcriptionist: *nelson muntz ha ha*
as a patient who was stunned into silence when a clinician informed me my visit was being transcribed with ai: i will not be stunned into silence again. that garbage is getting shut down instantly.
Mixed feelings. Language models have been doing speech recognition like forever, long before LLMs, so half of “AI” in this is rebranding. But no tech has ever been capable of clinical/research grade transcription, as any qual researcher will tell you at length. Evidently that’s still true.
The number of times i see Dragon typos that change the meaning entirely, usually due to dropped words (e.g. there is [no] evidence of ischaemia).....it still needs a human vetting.
Tech CEOs aren’t the audience now. They’re selling to researchers, universities, hospitals. It’s on us to make it clear that the tech isn’t good enough for the job. We need to build an AI anti-brand.
They're selling to universities and hospitals that have people doing a job parallel to CEO, but we don't call it that because it's bad optics for those organizations to look like corporations. But they ARE being run like corporations, to the detriment of literally everyone.
yeah CEOs(or whatever they call themselves at their wealth-extraction misery factory) in general think a predictive text algorithm is basically a cartoon supercomputer and have decided, for us, that we all love "AI". basically the perfect example of how stupid the "free market" is
I strongly suggest that if you’re in a one party recording state, you get a digital voice recorder and carry it into every doctor’s appointment. Because you’re going to need it.
Disappointed but not surprised. I was trying to apply to jobs at hospitals earlier this year, but ultimately abandoned that avenue because of the sheer number of them that have decided to “AI enhance” their application processes. No hyperbole, it often made the process literally impossible.
ME: “I’m seeking a support role. I’m not a clinician but I have lots of experience working sensitively with vulnerable populations. I also have good attention to detail and I’m outstanding at ensuring data quality.”
"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
George Orwell, 1984
AI is being widely adopted & accepted in healthcare to address physician/clinician burnout & financial constraints. As more institutions adopt these solutions the more rapidly it spreads.
Sadly there’s lack of understanding of AI/LLM risks as a transcription tool never mind for diagnosis/treatment
I like how they call these kind of events "hallucinations" as they really are. I've witnessed them for other AI (search engine related) & the AI get quite insane. When I told Bing that it was inaccurate & that what their answer was not factual, Bing doubled down & shut down the conversation.
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This is a nightmare.
as a patient who was stunned into silence when a clinician informed me my visit was being transcribed with ai: i will not be stunned into silence again. that garbage is getting shut down instantly.
AI: Doctor recommends amputation of affected part to mitigate risk of sepsis.
Patient: “I was stabbed by Sam Altman.”
Transcription AI: “What cuts?”
BOT: “Here are our open ‘clinician’ roles!”
George Orwell, 1984
Sadly there’s lack of understanding of AI/LLM risks as a transcription tool never mind for diagnosis/treatment