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Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes
AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes.
Like past mushroom identification apps, the accuracy is poor, Claypool found in a new report for Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization. For example, a February study in JAMA Ophthalmology found that a large-language model chatbot was just as good as eye specialists at recommending diagnoses and treatment for glaucoma and retina diseases. “Our findings, while promising, should not be interpreted as endorsing direct clinical application due to chatbots’ unclear limitations in complex decision-making, alongside necessary ethical, regulatory, and validation considerations,” the authors note.
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