Something Disturbing Happens When You "Learn" Something With ChatGPT

[rog]

27. I'm not sure I'm communicating effectively.

I tried to make it clear that I double-check everything. What technology is good for is doing the busy work of organization and getting 'ink on paper', which can then be edited. We are talking about a large volume of technical information here. For example, I'm looking at major cervical fusion surgery. NotebookLM has been really good at helping me organize highly technical information from various academic sources I have found, based on information given by my neurosurgeon, getting all the pros and cons in one place, and putting it into a format that I can study more easily. It has been very good at helping me to 'decode', for lack of a better word, extremely complex medical studies. Again, this particular LLM never strays from a sources (or multiple sources) that I supply.

In another example, I used it to great effect in a recent local election for school board. It is really difficult to get a lot of info about school board candidates, but I found interviews (in a bunch of different places) that individual candidates had done, questionnaires that they had responded to, a couple of facebook posts by a few candidates, newspaper articles here and there in local papers, some audio interviews, a few of them had web pages that offered profiles, etc, etc. I was able to link all those sources and then query that data to compare their positions and points of view regarding various topics I thought were important.

re: "... why do you want or need profiles of doctors' appointments? Although if your doctors are dumb enough to use AI to summarize appointments, it might be a good idea to have your own recording of the appointment, and to check any notes they have that you're allowed to check," I consider that tone EXTREMELY and unnecessarily confrontational, but I'll do my best to respond.

First of all, my doctors are *not* 'dumb'. I want to understand everything that is said in my appointments, and it's not a good idea to rely on one's memory. That's why hospitals recommend taking a friend or relative along, or taking really good notes, or making a recording.

Re: your condescending comment that it 'might be a good idea to have my own recording', if you actually read and understood my post, that is EXACTLY what I do. The voice recognition capability of the LLM allows me to easily make a word-for-word transcription that only requires minor edits. That gives me a hard copy of what was actually said during the appointment, which is MUCH easier to absorb than listening to an audio file. Combining the information from that recoding with the doctor's summary gives me way more detail than either one separately. Using a computer to help me do that is far more efficient than laboriously typing out every word myself, and it puts multiple appointments into a format that I can easily refer to at a later date.

I am 81 years old, and I've been using computers since they became available. I was on the internet before there were browsers, and I remember the first rudimentary, text-only websites. My first browser was LYNX, before that it was telnet, veronica, jughead, archie, etc, etc I believe in using the technology that's available to help me perform tedious tasks.

So, rather than attacking me for whatever reason, how about stating your point of view in a logical and considered manner?