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ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans (www.businessinsider.com)

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ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans::Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital found that cancer treatment plans generated by OpenAI's revolutionary chatbot were full of errors.

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[–] SirGolan@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 10 months ago (12 children)

What's with all the hit jobs on ChatGPT?

Prompts were input to the GPT-3.5-turbo-0301 model via the ChatGPT (OpenAI) interface.

This is the second paper I've seen recently to complain ChatGPT is crap and be using GPT3.5. There is a world of difference between 3.5 and 4. Unfortunately news sites aren't savvy enough to pick up on that and just run with "ChatGPT sucks!" Also it's not even ChatGPT if they're using that model. The paper is wrong (or it's old) because there's no way to use that model in the ChatGPT interface. I don't think there ever was either. It was probably ChatGPT 0301 or something which is (afaik) slightly different.

Anyway, tldr, paper is similar to "I tried running Diablo 4 on my Windows 95 computer and it didn't work. Surprised Pikachu!"

[–] eggymachus@sh.itjust.works -5 points 10 months ago (11 children)

And this tech community is being weirdly luddite over it as well, saying stuff like "it's only a bunch of statistics predicting what's best to say next". Guess what, so are you, sunshine.

[–] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, people are slightly more complicated than that. But sure, at their most basic, people simply communicate with statistical models.

[–] eggymachus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, maybe slightly :) but it surprises me that the ability to emulate a basic human is dismissed as "just statistics", since until a year ago it seemed like an impossible task...

[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The dismissal is coming from the class of people most threatened by these systems.

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