Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

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Microsoft’s medical AI is pretty impressive — except when it wrongly claims vaccines might cause autism, and that hospitals are haunted by ghosts.

BioGPT doesn’t seem to have gotten that memo, though. Asked about the topic, it replied that "vaccines are one of the possible causes of autism."

It feels almost insufficient to call this type of self-contradicting word salad "inaccurate." It seems more like a blended-up average of the AI’s training data, seemingly grabbing words from scientific papers and reassembling them in grammatically convincing ways resembling medical answers, but with little regard to factual accuracy or even consistency.

A Microsoft spokesperson declined to directly answer questions about BioGPT’s accuracy issues, and didn’t comment on whether there were concerns that people would misunderstand or misuse the model. "BioGPT is a research project," he said. "We released BioGPT in its current state so that others may reproduce and verify our work as well as study the viability of large language models in biomedical research."

 

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It is mentioned in the very fucken vaccine insert DUH. Friend of mine was provax until her child got intussusception from Rotateq. Bloody stool and only started talking at 3 or 4 years old. It happens and certainly not a few in a million. FFS.

Both probably true

No matter how advance that AI will be but there will always a trust issue amongst the people

AI doesn't have reason to lie

futurism Can’t lie though, 1.4 ghosts sounds accurate

Incrementallog1 Aren't most doctors too!

What is the statistical relevance/variance? I've met people who said food caused 'autism' in their children until they fed them healthy nutrition.

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