Why not both? I think Claude is probably already more useful and helpful than many doctors. It would be nice to one day be able to just chat with an AI bot from home and get prescriptions or test sheets delivered. You could add automatic safeguards for certain medications or for drug interactions.

Obviously we're not there yet but many people in the world have access to no medical care or only expensive and crappy medical care.

Fwiw, ChatGPT can give reasonable cancer prevention advice which should always be the focus for most of us. Also, tech behind ChatGPT can be used to do a survey of a specific cancer's main research using various RAG based tools or using my free software such as https://github.com/impredicative/newssurvey

Unfortunately, while AI has some helpful uses like this, it will be used for trivial and even worse, nefarious purposes as well. And I do think the nefarious will outweigh the good for sure, but those who develop it and sell it to the highest bidder will undoubtedly point to stuff like this to use the emotions of the general populace to twist their perceptions to ignore the nefarious.

A lot of technology gets entrenched using such mechanisms even though its benefits are questionable. Genetic engineering, what could go wrong? But think of the sick children?

Not knocking what these people are trying to do, but I do think that if you add up all the positives and negatives of AI, the negatives far outweigh the positives.

I'm not sure how much of it is hype targeted at potential shareholders vs. reality but Moderna claims that they've incorporated ChatGPT into their business processes where they're using it to, among other things, predict optimal therapeutic dosages for their drugs

https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2024/Moder...