Artificial Intelligence News & Discussion

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I also feel unmotivated due to AI's ability to come up with diagnoses just as good as doctors.
Solely based on a patient's words, AI can figure the disease out just.

AI may be great for detecting diseases and helping with diagnoses, but it is not always right! AI confabulates and that is where it’s still crucial for you to have that knowledge base. POB posted a great article about this on the Does ChatGPT know how to lie? thread. Sure AI can help you refine your diagnoses and help with differentials, but it is still only a tool and not a replacement. As Gaby so eloquently wrote above, it is no replacement for human connection, empathy and care. That’s your role as a physician.

And speaking of McGilchrist, he wrote an excellent article titled Raging Against the Machine, some of which I quote below (emphases mine):

He tells me that he will say that “the opposite of life is not death, the opposite of life is mechanism … We are embracing the idea that we are machine-like … in the process, we’re losing our sense of wonder, we’re losing our sense of humility, we’re becoming hubristic.” And this, he reminds me, has been “from time immemorial in all the cultures of the world the fable, the myth of how we will destroy ourselves, through hubris, as Lucifer became Satan”. […]

He argues that another potential source of society’s self-destruction is individualism, which he links to secularisation, high levels of unhappiness and the ecological crisis. “Almost everything we’re taught … effectively, it’s about me, me, me … and we now find that we are the most miserable people that have ever lived. Surprise, surprise, we’ve cut ourselves off from the roots of fulfilment, which is oneness with nature, with the divine and with one another.” Solving ecological ills, he says, will follow when people see themselves as caretakers, not exploiters, of the natural world.