• We have models that are specifically made to be good at these kinds of tasks. Why would you choose the ones that aren’t and then make generalizing claims about how AI sucks in this domain?

    •  spaduf   ( @spaduf@slrpnk.net ) 
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      Yeah this is probably just straight up misinformation. By no means is a diagnosis going to be made by a generalist multimodal LLM. Diagnosis is a literally a binary classification (although that is an oversimplification) and on medical CV you are optimizing on that directly.

      •  snooggums   ( @snooggums@midwest.social ) 
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        They did not use a LLM.

        In a recent experiment, they set out to determine how reliable LMMs are in medical diagnosis — asking both general and more specific diagnostic questions — as well as whether models were even being evaluated correctly for medical purposes.

        Curating a new dataset and asking state-of-the-art models questions about X-rays, MRIs and CT scans of human abdomens, brain, spine and chests, they discovered “alarming” drops in performance.