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What exactly does “personalized medical treatment” entail?

Writing prescriptions?

Ok, I can see how AI could theoretically do that (assuming it doesn’t hallucinate and kill a bunch of people). Oh and don’t think it’ll be so easy to give AI the legal authority to prescribe controlled substances. And insurance companies may take issue with expensive prescriptions written by a chat bot.

Perform surgeries? Stitch wounds?

That’s decades away. And that also opens a legal can of worms. Maybe the AI lawyers can figure something out.



maybe he's referring to people doing research on their own variant of disease through LLMs to find cures


That’s fine and dandy but it won’t do anything for most people with serious health problems.


Some people (albeit probably not a lot) are really doing this for complex life threatening cases:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729 (gitlab founder leveraging AI tools to find cure for his rare cancer)




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