Bunting just means decorations, the value is true when the government recommends decorating for the holiday. It's reserved for celebrations, so events like the queens funeral have it set to false.
Reminds me of how for a while OpenSSL was being developed and maintained by just two guys called Steve [0]. I think they've upgraded to a team of seven now at least
Interestingly there's already an AI powered earbud [0] on the market that claims to do that; whether it's any good or if OpenAI can do better remains to be seen.
But how long before it's capturing audio from your conversations to use as training data?
I did see one attempt[0] at creating a doctor from an LLM on Github. From their ReadMe.MD overview: "This is an open-source project with a mission to provide everyone their own private doctor"
Hard not to agree with your edit0 as well; search engines often give doomsday diagnosis, how long before we're all hypochondriacs under the latest LLM cult?
My biggest concern with that would be that very quickly health authorities or insurance companies will force these on people and you'll be forced to interact with an LLM and not get to talk to a doctor for most stuff.
Zero chance with regulation. We still don’t let machines final read ECGs and insurance companies pay a physician (typically a cardiologist) to overread them. These have been FDA approved algorithms for over a decade already.
I don't see why it would be the worst thing as a first level thing to interact with, freeing up doctors for more important tasks or trickier individuals.
How many people are showing up to doctors for bullshit, going to er for colds and mild flu's, or symptoms that can't be talked until tests are ordered
Last time I went to the Dr, I waited two hours, I finally saw a nurse who took down my symptoms, ordered a test, and said a Dr will follow up,who just gave me some antibiotics for a couple of days before even taking the test.
Why couldn't an llm take my symptoms, match it with similar tests needed and order the test automatically and have me leave with the same antibiotic?then follow up with a doctor when the lab is done.
Same for yearly physicals, just have an llm order all the tests and I'll talk with the dr later.
All sorts of low level stuff can be automated away.
“Bullshit” is almost always a post
hoc diagnosis. In the last 2 years I’ve seen 3 20-somethings with a few days of flu symptoms having used a virtual walk in clinic service before coming to the ER (this is Canada where primary care is mostly non-existent) that had APL (highly treatable) and ended up dying within a few hours from DIC and intracranial hemorrhage (not treatable and how they ended up in my neck of the woods).
There’s still something to be said for the physical exam and eyeball test.
Obviously there’s a large element of survivorship bias at play here but I don’t believe the solution for poor primary care is to accept it will always be shitty and substitute a LLM.
I didnt mean it as primary care sucks so switch in an llm becasue it sucks as much.
But as away to free up doctors from low effort stuff, churn through lines quicker and get people who actually need focused attention the time with a Dr they need.
You’re right that the vast majority of the time it’s low effort but it’s hard to identify those cases with high specificity up front.
The issue in medicine is there is huge class imbalance, 90%+ of encounters are essentially “negative” or normal. It’s easy for something/someone to look accurate or safe because of pretest probability. The hard part is getting above 90% and why we spend so much time in medicine training.
I hate the word but there’s something in medicine called “clinical gestalt” which is the overall impression one has from certain things in history and exam and doesn’t fit into a decision rule or algorithm, until we find a solution for that I’m not keen on adopting something that distances the patient from the physician.
We’ve tried that with mid levels at my hospital and it didn’t really work out.
Sun: can I live forever in a cave so I don't get any sunlight? No, you can't (in practical terms). But you can use sunscreen and you can limit the number of hours you get exposed to sun (don't be a dick and lay down on the beach 5h straight during hot summer days). Problem fixed.
Alcohol: can I live forever without drinking any alcohol. Yes, you can. Problem fixed.
Since you completely ignored the parent's valid point (many things that are in fact healthy for you can also cause cancer if overdoing, so the phrase "may cause cancer" by itself is not a valid argument), here's why your own argument has no merit whatsoever:
> Alcohol: can I live forever without drinking any alcohol. Yes, you can. Problem fixed.
I know the sun can increase skin cancer risk, that's why people take precautions.
The risks of alcohol are quite well known (e.g. what drinking & driving often does). It's also addictive, which means some people really struggle to stop or can't. It's not harmless at all.
Could you elaborate a bit on the data sources and how the privacy laws affect them? I'm curious how the data can be publicly available to you but compiling a profile on someone with that data and disclosing it might not be.
In short, there are laws on data resellers vs data brokers. Data resellers can provide uncensored data and their sources but there are many more hoops for them to jump through in terms of who sees that. We would have to do due diligence into every person using our tool in that case.
That's fascinating, thanks! It's bizarre how giving one person's information to another person is a big deal, but giving millions of people's information to a company is totally fine.
This has already been settled in the EU - from a tax perspective, the sale is happening where the customer placing the order lives, which typically coincides with an address in the same country.
Now something like this is bound to come, from the new treaty, to all G7 countries, which hopefully means it will trickle down to the G20 at the least.
The main issue is not rules on sales though - it's cracking down on profit-shifting masqueraded as IP transfers and licensing. Hopefully that too is being cracked down on.
First, this is not a treaty, it is an annoucement. To make the announcement a "real thing", each country needs to go back to their own legislatures and pass laws, and in those countries that are federal, they need to somehow get their states to pass laws. That then needs to trickle down into account changes, jurisdictional changes, etc. None of that has happened. What has happened is that leaders got together in a conference and issued a joint press release of an intention to address a certain problem within a framework of certain types of solutions. Think of it like the Kyoto agreement -- there is a big difference between popping some champagne corks and actually getting stuff done.
It came from the 17th and 18th centuries where the china cups weren't quite as strong. The heat of the water would often crack the cups, milk was used to cool the tea and stop the cups breaking.
Politicians as a whole are known for lies, deciet and corruption. It's not limited to one specific party nor country. The visibility of corruption may change, but its presence never will.
There is a giant pile of contracts that have been scrutinised that very clearly show the absolutely incestuous nature of procurement since covid and long before too. It isn't "all politicians", it is conservative politicians in the last eleven years.
The Good Law Project is a great example of the kind of organisation that investigates this. The Guardian does good work here too. I'm surprised to say it, but even Labour are making noise about it in Parliament. This is historically unusual and a sign of the return of the Old Boys' network. It is a bad sign for democracy.
"even Labour..." - of course Labour make a noise about it, that's their job. The opposition obviously criticise at any opportunity. Your faith in organisations (the Good Law Project, The Guardian, undoubtedly big left government too) is misplaced given that they're composed of individuals, and small groups within will sieze opportunity. The Guardian journalists show plenty of bias. Clearly the tories are dodgy, but no effort is required to spot the large fly in the anti-tory ointment: Tony Blair - weapons of mass destruction, net worth up to £100m. The narrative of the left being morally superior is absurd. Politicians are low, and I look forward to tech based governance without them. /optimism
