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0 pointsZircom2y ago0 comments

Did you read the article you posted?

-ChatGPT initially gives the same diagnosis the vets did, Babesiosis

-It notes that Babesiosis may have either been a misdiagnosis or there may be a secondary condition/infection causing the remaining symptoms after the Babesiosis treatment didn't resolve all of them

-It suggests such a hypothetical secondary condition could be IMHA, which the article notes is an extremely common complication of Babesiosis with this specific dog breed

-A quick Google search brings up a fair amount of literature about the association between Babesiosis and IMHA

So in fact this is the opposite of a never before seen situation, ChatGPT was just regurgitating common comorbidities of Babesiosis and the vets in question are terrible at their job.

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sillysaurusx2y ago· 2 in thread

Are you suggesting that it was commonplace for machine learning models to be able to extrapolate medical case reports into an actual diagnosis? Even being able to read and understand a case report is a minor miracle in extrapolation, and it’s interesting how far the goal posts move.

lossolo2y ago

I have another example of ChatGPT not generalizing but just being a really good statistical model. I needed a solution to a problem that you can't find on Google, and a variation of a problem that also can't be found on Google. I attempted to obtain around 15 lines of code from ChatGPT that would solve the problem, but it consistently failed to produce the correct solution. I spent a few hours trying different prompts, indicating its errors and receiving apologies, only for it to generate another incorrect solution while acknowledging its mistake. Solving out of distribution problems correctly seems almost impossible for it.

sillysaurusx2y ago

GPT 3.5 or 4? Surprisingly it makes a huge difference. I think a lot of peoples’ impressions are with 3.5, but many startups couldn’t have been built on it, whereas with 4 they can.

If it was 4 I’d be curious about the specific problem if you’d be willing to link to the chat.

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