However these medical LLMs have been around for a long time, and don't use horrific amounts of energy, not do they make billionaires richer. They are the sorts of things that a hobbiest can put together provided they have enough training data. Further to that they can run offline, allowing doctors to perform tests in the field, as I can attest to witnessing first hand with soil transmitted helminths surveys in Mozambique. That means that instead of checking thousands of stool samples manually, those same people can be paid to collect more samples or distribute the drugs to cure the disease in affected populations.
Sure, agreed . Too bad 99% of it's use is still stealing from society to make a few billionaires richer.
I also agree.
However these medical LLMs have been around for a long time, and don't use horrific amounts of energy, not do they make billionaires richer. They are the sorts of things that a hobbiest can put together provided they have enough training data. Further to that they can run offline, allowing doctors to perform tests in the field, as I can attest to witnessing first hand with soil transmitted helminths surveys in Mozambique. That means that instead of checking thousands of stool samples manually, those same people can be paid to collect more samples or distribute the drugs to cure the disease in affected populations.
I highly doubt the medical data to do these are available to a hobbyist, or that someone like that would have the know-how to train the AI.
But yea, rare non-bad use of AI. Now we just need to eat the rich to make it a good for humanity. Let's get to that I say!
Actually the datasets for this MDA stuff are widely available.