I’ve been playing around with AI, ChatGPT mostly, and it is great. The results are basically neutral or to the woke side. But, I questioned my Chtgpt friend once after getting a woke response and actually asked if he/she/it was biased. Chtgpt came back with a more truthful response, but with caveats, which is exactly what I wanted. I can make a decision based on the truth.
For New York to try to limit medical or legal advice is going down the wrong road, and my suspicion is that doctors and lawyers see major impacts on people’s ability to do more without them. For instance, lawyers get underlings, high-paid entry-level lawyers to do research, and this could be with many employees if the company is big. AI can be used to conduct research with one or two trained individuals rather than five or six. Same with research assistants doctors use.
The other fear is that people will become or think they are a lawyer or doctor without the training, and that is bad. But throughout history, people have bypassed doctors with mom’s cure or other cures already known. As far as lawyers are concerned, AI will also give people an idea of whether they need a lawyer, and that is a concern for lawyers.
AI is here, it is not going away, and it can’t be locked up; we see AI advances on a daily basis, and it is time to get on the train. All IMO.
Note: One real-life example: I am a liver transplant patient of 10 years with no issues. Recently, I had an issue with a pharmacy and one of the two drugs I take to keep me alive was delayed. I went to the pharmacy and got a lot of BS, but no drugs that I needed. I tried to call my transplant hospital, but could not contact anyone. This was concerning because, although I periodically miss a dose, it is not often. This issue would be days before I could get the drug.
I talked to my buddy ChtGPT, and step by step, it walked me through to a point where I was not concerned about the multiple days of missed doses. One drug I take is more important than the other, and it was not delayed. Doctors may not agree with me doing this, but it worked, and I learned a lot about the drugs I am on.
“New York lawmakers are advancing legislation aimed at regulating artificial intelligence chatbots to prevent them from offering medical or legal advice or otherwise “impersonating” professionals licensed in the state in fields ranging from physical therapy and optometry to veterinary medicine and architecture.
In other words, legislators don’t want ChatGPT or Gemini to be able to answer questions about that mole on users’ elbows, help plan a deck for their backyard, or suggest some exercises to help them recover from a nasty slip on the ice. If the chatbot does answer such questions and something goes awry, they want users to be able to sue the companies that operate them for damages.”