Ex–Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time in the era of AI

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Anonymous wrote:How's AI supposed to perform a physical exam, palpitations a stomach, look in someone's ears, do developmental questions with an anxious kid, etc?

In development. Robots can see

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a lawyer who's seen AI work and it's a giant mess. Hallucinates like crazy, leads people entirely wrong. Maybe it will, but for now it's making messes that are taking more attorney time to fix. Legalzoom and their ilk were supposed to put lawyers out of business and largely did the same thing.

Which Ai are you using? They are not the same

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Anonymous wrote:AI not si

SI is the very real danger. AI is romper room compared to SI.

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Anonymous wrote:I would ignore, OP. My husband is a doctor and he would it if his kids showed an interest in med school (they don’t). Sure, AI is invaluable as a support tool, but it cannot replace an actual human.

That human is called a nurse.

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You weenies should read the article. The guy isn't saying that doctors and lawyers and scientists are obsolete. He's saying that spending half a million dollars and 3 years to memorize a ton of information already in books is a waste of money and time.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok so you go to AI doctor with your kid, kid has heritable illness. AI overlords sterilize you and kid to lower social healthcare costs in long term.

You go to AI doctor at age 75 and it diagnosis cancer. Sends you to palliative care because AI overlords have rule about treating old people.

What's not to like?

You sound as delusional as tea partiers and their “death panels.” In reality that AI doctors costs a few thousand a year to operate so they’ll have more money for R&D and nurses to get you healthy again.

Aw, you are so innocent. It’s cute.

^based on diction you are a woman without any background in stem. Opinion and snark ignored

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Anonymous wrote:I find these "experts" know little about the lived experiences, needs, and preferences of the majority of people.

Yea. I need a hectic and understaffed ER in the city that takes eight hours to get through for ultimately minor ailments. Extra points for patients who are handcuffed to their bed because they also committed a felony. I’ll take AI

It's such a failure of imagination that the response to complaints about unaffordable unpleasant medical care is to throw AI at the problem instead of saying "hey, maybe we should have excellent, affordable human provided care like the rest of the developed world does."

The rest of the world doesn’t have obese flyovers and minorities who eat ultra processed foods and do drugs. It skyrockets premiums that are given out by the gubmint like candy

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ex-google-exec-says-degrees-in-law-and-medicine-are-a-waste-of-time-because-they-take-so-long-to-complete-that-ai-will-catch-up-by-graduation/ar-AA1W8Fzh?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=69ad725a7d7b4a33a3b8db35aa5b5448&ei=29

My DS and DD are in first year of medical school with student loan debt at public universities, and this really scares me. My younger brother is working for an AI company specializing in radiology that can do a much better job than a radiologist.

How much does that tech bro stand to earn by making everyone think AI is all that? They will make bank on stocks and be on to the next tech thing they will not allow their own children to use.

Sorry, bro. When I need a tumor removed or a chemo treatment plan, I want a human and not AI slop.

I am hiring a lawyer this week to do my estate planning. Not using AI for that either.

Claude will let you know what to do in terms of documents and financial planing to minimize the estate tax. As an attorney, it is 95% of the way there in terms of the actual strategy of estate law. In terms of documents, it is probably 3 years away from outperforming the median estate attorney. Maybe five years from being near perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:There will never be a true replacement of a physician, but I noticed our newest med school class is full of students who are working on si projects.

That might be true, but instead of needing 10 radiologists, they now need 1 to sign off final approval.

Or the amount of imaging goes up a ton because it can be analyzed more quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ex-google-exec-says-degrees-in-law-and-medicine-are-a-waste-of-time-because-they-take-so-long-to-complete-that-ai-will-catch-up-by-graduation/ar-AA1W8Fzh?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=69ad725a7d7b4a33a3b8db35aa5b5448&ei=29

My DS and DD are in first year of medical school with student loan debt at public universities, and this really scares me. My younger brother is working for an AI company specializing in radiology that can do a much better job than a radiologist.

How much does that tech bro stand to earn by making everyone think AI is all that? They will make bank on stocks and be on to the next tech thing they will not allow their own children to use.

Sorry, bro. When I need a tumor removed or a chemo treatment plan, I want a human and not AI slop.

I am hiring a lawyer this week to do my estate planning. Not using AI for that either.

Claude will let you know what to do in terms of documents and financial planing to minimize the estate tax. As an attorney, it is 95% of the way there in terms of the actual strategy of estate law. In terms of documents, it is probably 3 years away from outperforming the median estate attorney. Maybe five years from being near perfect.

So still 3 years away from doing one of the most basic practice areas better than the median lawyer….

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ex-google-exec-says-degrees-in-law-and-medicine-are-a-waste-of-time-because-they-take-so-long-to-complete-that-ai-will-catch-up-by-graduation/ar-AA1W8Fzh?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=69ad725a7d7b4a33a3b8db35aa5b5448&ei=29

My DS and DD are in first year of medical school with student loan debt at public universities, and this really scares me. My younger brother is working for an AI company specializing in radiology that can do a much better job than a radiologist.

Which professions would last?

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If AI can lower my cost by cutting on health insurance, hospital administration and pharmaceutical costs then I wouldn't mind compensations for specialists who make millions every year.

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Part of the role of the physician is assuming professional liability. When AI companies are willing and able to assume the malpractice risk for misdiagnosis/faulty treatment, including having to pay out for malpractice suits, then I will be worried that doctors will be replaced. Until then, a doctor is needed. of course, it will make life much worse for the remaining doctors if AI efficiency increases the expectation to sign off on hundreds of AI assisted cases and assume liability for them. I’m a 50 yo radiologist, and when the day comes that I have to do that, I will just retire. I’m already financially independent; have been saving and investing as preparation for that exact scenario. AI can just sign off on itself.

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I think companies will still need legal assistance as CYA, so I don't see lawyers going extinct. I do think we’ll need less, so it’ll be a survival-of-the-fittest situation for new grads.

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Anonymous wrote:When a reputable doctor or lawyer says the same, I’ll start to worry. It’s slop and not to be trusted.

You know what it can do? Program/code. But how do we know that’s not slop as well?

Do not trust what tech execs say. They’ve invested probably billions, laid off thousands etc for this and need it to succeed. They are trying to manifest success.

Kind of like the last 3 doctors I've seen ...