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Right, but the article doesn't make that point. It is full of magical thinking that openness is the one hurdle we need to clear.

I wouldn't feel any more comfortable getting diagnosed by an open-source LLM than I would be by a proprietary one made by OpenAI.




But your fine with a human that might spend 5 minutes looking at your chart after a heavy day of drinking/pills/10,000 other things to do?

The problem with 'Doctor AI' isn't that it's going to make mistakes, we already have doctors doing that and killing 100s of thousand per year. It's that we'll only have 1 doctor AI everywhere and there won't be a thing as a second opinion because "Computer Don't Argue"




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