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Current systems are already tremendously useful in the medical field. And I'm not talking about your doctor asking ChatGPT random shit, I'm saying radiology results processing, patient monitoring, monitoring of medication studies... The list goes on. Not to mention many of the research advances done using automated systems already, for example for weather forecasting.

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I'm getting real "put everything on the blockchain" vibes from answers like this. I remember when folks were telling me that hospitals were going to put patient records on the blockchain. As for radiology, it doesn't seem this use of AI is as much of a "slam dunk" as it first appeared[1][2]. We'll see, I guess.

Right now I kind of land on the side of "Where is all the shovelware?". If AI is such a huge productivity boost for developers, where is all the software those developers are supposedly writing[3]? But this is just a microcosm of a bigger question. Almost all the economic growth since the AI boom started has been in AI companies. If AI is revolutionizing multiple fields, why aren't relevant companies those fields also growing at above-expected rates? Where's all this productivity that AI is supposedly unlocking?

[1] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/does-ai-help-or-hurt-human-radi...

[2] https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.24.31493

[3] https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware...

Ok, but i am asking for uses for LLMs specifically.

Of course i agree ML has already helped in many other areas and has a bright future. But the thing everyone is talking about here are LLM's

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