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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

In other news, Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 got sent a viewpoint article with the title "Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?".

I will give MAIHT3K credit for managing to get through that shit, because what the actual fuck.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

wait wait wait wait this it not substack of some deranged fash techbro ghoul like balaji srinivasan, that's JAMA, are you sure these are actual MDs and not three techbros in a stolen labcoat

one of them - first author - has three fluff pieces on genai in similar tone to their name, the other two, it seems to me, didn't wrote a thing about ai earlier

then again scott siskind exists, but this is not something that i'd expect even from him

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

JAMA article's not in scihub, anyone got a copy?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

anything newer than 2022? won't be on scihub, because scihub got in a court case in india, that they hope they can win and secure reasonably stable place where they can operate from

tho it seems to me that the entire article is that three screens of text

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

that's fuckin grim.

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