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  • The tragic thing here is that doctors in Canada do actually need support to get their work done. They are typically overloaded with paperwork, and can’t actually do their real job of helping patients.

    This desperation leads to AI companies being welcomed and implemented without examining the root capabilities of the systems. They are inherently statistical machines that lack reasoning and context, and they are constrained by their training data. You should expect them to get things wrong a significant portion of the time, especially when it comes to the specifics of individual patients and unusual scenarios that their training data could not capture.

    We should not be relying on them for anything serious, let alone medical applications. If you’re not an AI/software expert, you should assume that the AI companies are straight up lying to you about their capabilities, and effectively preying upon your desperation.










    1. Yes, it would allow any website to run a local LLM. Maybe the browser would prompt you to confirm though. Not sure about that.
    2. Browser makers have worked for decades to make browsers standardized and compatible. As the article and the excerpt says, users and website developers will want a standard experience between Chrome and Firefox. If they rely on LLMs to perform functional work, like a semantic search function, they would want browsers to be roughly the same. Different models can vary tremendously depending on the tasks. Web developers aren’t just going to use this for a typical chat bot, they are going to use it for intermediate tasks as part of other functionality. So Firefox would be pressured to provide that consistency by adopting the specific model that Google chooses.



  • I’d like to think we’ll be looking back on this time in astonishment, but we also went through similar things with Facebook and billions of people still use their services.

    I’m not too surprised that Altman apologized, because there have been multiple reports saying that he will say the right words to anyone to appease them, even if it means he ends up telling different people entirely contradictory things. Though I agree he probably miscalculated here, and the apology is what enabled the new lawsuits.

    What bugs me the most is that he’s probably going to settle all the lawsuits out of court for some amount of money that is large for the families but insignificant for the company, and he won’t actually be held accountable, especially if the chat logs are never released.