Trust your Native Intelligence over AI

[trochetier]

AI can be dangerous to one's wellbeing -

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?utm_campaign=health_tech&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=367121070&utm_content=367121070&utm_source=hs_email

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

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[j_garcia]

AI is good for many things, but not so much for some of the things that people attempt to use it for. If you don't know how to use the tool, the results might not be ideal.

AI knows what it knows and nothing more, so I think of it like asking a young child a dumb question. You have no idea what they are going to say, but it will probably be wrong based on a child's perspective and their limited understanding, and funny.

 

[mtrycrafts]

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[lovinthehd]

Haven't looked at the article yet....but hopefully most treat AI as simply amusing at this point.

 

[Bobby Bass]

AI is here and it’s impacting the way we live and do business. My concern is with the over reliance on technology. Science and technology need ethics. The Terminator warned us. Concerned that the powers that be aren’t heading the warning. Ironic that as I type this there’s an ad with Darth Vader extolling the power of Blue Jeans Cable. Where’s Obi Wan when you need him? lol

 

[j_garcia]

I think companies are saying we should be concerned about it, while at the same time basically EVERY big corporation is constantly talking about it.

The job market instantly became AI centric as well. You used to need to know "office" products generically, now some form of AI is practically required as a buzzword on your resume.

Ai is hurting education for sure. Students rely on it rather than use it as a tool. I read an article that said that critical thinking is declining because of the reliance on AI to come up with answers vs. doing deep analysis. That applies to work as well, people using it to DO their work instead of to help them do their work. If you lose the ability to understand how the results are achieved, then how will you do it next time?

Example: Write my resume for XX job description vs. Give me tips on how to write an appropriate resume for XX job description.

 

[Dan]

As a radiologist I use AI now daily. There are two parts. I can use AI to generate the impression in my reports after I dictate all the findings. The findings are is 98% of the work. The impression it makes is based on it listening to my last eight years of reports and it is remarkably good and sounds just like me of course. I do have to make edits about a quarter of the time. It is a small time saver.
The second part is where it “reads” the images before I do. If it sees certain critical findings like bleeds in the brain, fractures in the cervical spine or free air in the abdomen it will flag the study so I look at it next. It is not very good at making these findings both falsely wrong in a positive and negative sense. It works as well as a bad junior resident. But it does help keep things from not getting read for hours on a routine study that otherwise has a low priority.
People talk about AI taking my job. I won’t be around long enough for that. It is a very long was away. But my trainees may face a different future. I tell them to keep up and that their job will change as mine certainly did since I trained in the late 80s. They should be good at procedures like biopsies and barium since that is something AI can’t do.

 

[j_garcia]

As a radiologist I use AI now daily. There are two parts. I can use AI to generate the impression in my reports after I dictate all the findings. The findings are is 98% of the work. The impression it makes is based on it listening to my last eight years of reports and it is remarkably good and sounds just like me of course. I do have to make edits about a quarter of the time. It is a small time saver.
The second part is where it “reads” the images before I do. If it sees certain critical findings like bleeds in the brain, fractures in the cervical spine or free air in the abdomen it will flag the study so I look at it next. It is not very good at making these findings both falsely wrong in a positive and negative sense. It works as well as a bad junior resident. But it does help keep things from not getting read for hours on a routine study that otherwise has a low priority.
People talk about AI taking my job. I won’t be around long enough for that. It is a very long was away. But my trainees may face a different future. I tell them to keep up and that their job will change as mine certainly did since I trained in the late 80s. They should be good at procedures like biopsies and barium since that is something AI can’t do.

That is where the benefit is if you ask me. Let it do some of the "busywork" to offload aspects that it is capable of handling. Your description of it is sort of how I see it: a slightly less knowledgeable helper. It won't replace actual knowledge or skill, at least for a while lol, but it can speed things up by helping find where the real focus is required.

It does a pretty impressive job of scanning a transcript of a meeting to generate meeting minutes and action items. I have to be honest, I was impressed at how well it does that, for something that doesn't really entirely understand what it is summarizing.

 

[Dan]

While some of what is does for me is a little impressive when I read a CT scan of the abdomen say I am looking for maybe a thousand different things or more. It’s a lot of organs in there. The AI can look for a handful at most. I’m curious to see how it evolves but I’ll be retired much sooner than later.

 

[lovinthehd]

While some of what is does for me is a little impressive when I read a CT scan of the abdomen say I am looking for maybe a thousand different things or more. It’s a lot of organs in there. The AI can look for a handful at most. I’m curious to see how it evolves but I’ll be retired much sooner than later.

Is the AI exclusively using your own data?

 

[Dan]

For the impression generator yes it has something like eight years of my reports to draw on.

 

[cpp]

I think Ai has its place in the development of components or materials and as Dan noted in the medical field, but I think its big issue is the fake news bits you see everywhere, fake Ai generated pictures flooding tiktok of Israel and Iran attacking each other.. that's a huge problem.