AI and Dharma

Following the creation of new "GPT's"  through some reddit forums... Don't want to be a paid subscriber yet...  the clunky free GPT works well enough for right now.

Oh yeah, back to the AI in the medical office.  ( patient rooms ).   A little back story... EMR ( electronic medical records ) were touted as time-savin wonder that was going to allow Drs. and PA's to have increased efficiency.  Now we would be able to document a patients encounter with a few clicks of a mouse....and we would be able to save money by reducing staff!   Paper charts were inefficient the sales people said!!.  Move into the future!  I trained on on a clunky first gen. EMR in 2004.  My doctor was so proud of her investment, inviting all her doctor friends over to the office to see her forward thinking.   It was a piece of garbage!   Paper charting was soooo much faster.   Fast forward a few years... second gen...still garbage.  Too much time to document, zero flexibility, endless scrolling, clicking.  And I had to do it all.   Five years ago, we got the latest generation " state of the art ", but this time a whole new classification of medical workers has been created... the scribe.  Now we will be freed up from any tapping, bopping, scrolling... but somebody else will do it!  And we will add more staff now, so instead of two workers per Dr./PA. we now need three... and still inefficiencies because, well, this staff needs to be trained...and when just get trained well enough... they leave.  Because well, there is turnover when companies don't want to pay staff well enough..
So back to the present.  This EMR company is all in with AI.  They are planning to record 1,000,000 patient encounters over the next 6 months to build their model.   I will be able to hit a button, record the conversation and it will potentially auto populate the entire patient record, order labs, and send prescriptions with a simple ok. from me.   But first, we have to fill out paperwork...  liability release paperwork from every person in the room.  I am going to nope out on the training data acquisition as much as I would like to help build the model.  We simply don't have the time to explain all this to our elderly folks and try to convince them that this will be a good thing in their best interest.   And most of my patients are older and very, very conservative.  Skeptical and untrusting of " new fangled stuff like smart phones " 

Who is listening to me?  Is this Joe Biden's idea?   Are you going to microchip me while you are at it too? ...

Are any of these people hallucinations? 

I was doing some Bing AI searches yesterday, using plain language to search for sources of information on midwest winter camping, gear lists, locations, etc... While the plain language interface is nice, I was struck by the fact that the output was basically the same info as a keyword search, but slower and a shorter list. Normally the "good stuff" is the third page of a keyword search where the esoteric stuff starts showing up.

Ulimately, I feel like the plain language interface slows me down. I would rather have 250 links given to me and then use my own intelligence to skim and locate what I'm looking for.

That's my experience as a very late adopter... I'm sure it will evolve.


And, for the record, I for one welcome our new AI overlords.

yeah, the therapists.  Good for Bing. 

Thanks to this, I just had a long "conversation" with AI Rob Burbea. I had to laugh at how many of the answers included some variation of "It depends", and then it would proceed to say how it might or might not help, and how you really have to get in there and see "what feels supportive". Very Rob Burbeaish answers! 

I think Chris will break the dharma with his AI skills!  

Oh no! The dhamma first gets watered down by the west and now stripped down to its 1’s and 0’s !!! 

What’s next? My personal AI Jesus! Or my personal AI Buddha? Ha!  


p.s. just kidding! 

So … I could make me a Personal Jesus?  

Hey Chris,
It works. I'm asked to create a free account for Mindstudio (which I did not)...

When I press on that link it asks me to choose if to open with email or Google or Apple ID and to click a little “agree” box. Then it opens a new page where I must sign in somehow. I didn’t sign in. I hoped it could open without any signing in. But I’m in Denmark so … might be different rules about AI not sure.