I'm glad you found the discussion helpful! To be clear, my concerns aren't about synthetic data, but about synthetic text, i.e. setting up systems where lawyer (etc) take the output of an LLM as if it were information.
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Nurses Challenge AI Hype: Where’s Real Healthcare Impact?
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It’s just what they’re imagining we do and not really what we do. Where’s the substance relative to what we’re actually doing as nurses, taking care of patients? /end alt text
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AI Technologies Performing Without Actually Delivering Results
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If you ever watch the Muppets and you remember Chef, and he’s there and he’s chopping and singing and he’s doing all the things that somebody perceives a chef might dow, but he’s not actually cooking. And sometimes that’s what these technologies feel like. >>
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AI Hype Undervalues Complex Nursing Work Beyond Drug Interactions
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So it completely erases everything else that nurses do. All of this hype is so contingent upon the work that nurses do is not valuable. So it’s just like, hey, all nurses do is look up drug interactions. >>
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Clinical expertise and AI diagnostic understanding in healthcare
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or know what it means or know which one to pull out of that litany as more likely than something else. That comes from understanding the person that you’re looking at and your experience as a clinician. >>
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Chatbots Aren’t Nurses: Beyond AI Test Scores
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Alt text for video: Audiogram with with Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 logo and headline "Episode 36: Chatbots Aren't Nurses" and subhead "Why chatbot scores on drug interaction tests don't translate to meaningful care" >>
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Chatbots Aren’t Nurses: Exploring AI Limitations in Healthcare
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MAIHT3k Ep 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurseshttps://t.co/GjMamy3lfY
— @emilymbender.bsky.social (@emilymbender) 3 août 2024
In which @NationalNurses's Michelle Mahon joined me & @alexhanna to explore the enormous gulf between synthetic text extruding machines and actual nursing practice.
Thx to @ctaylsaurus for production! pic.twitter.com/wj7UpiaOvcMAIHT3k Ep 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurses https://
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Beyond Accuracy: Rethinking AI Model Evaluation and Assessment
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If you're thinking about this as an "accuracy" problem, you've already lost the plot … as well illustrated by this quote from one of the dissenting voices hidden in the middle of the article:
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Medical Science Shouldn’t Platform Automating End-of-Life Care
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This is the same horrific idea that I wrote about in my MAIHT3k newsletter post on Monday, but @techreview goes for the "ooh shiny!" angle instead: https://
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MIT Tech Review’s Mixed AI Coverage: Ethics vs. Tech Boosterism
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The reporting in @techreview is such a mixed back. Some good critical work, some "look shiny!" tech reporting that at best quotes a few "skeptics" towards the bottom before returning to boosterism. This one is an example of that — a short thread: https://
technologyreview.com/2024/08/01/109
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