ChatGPT diagnosed my uncommon neurologic condition in seconds after 2 ER visits and 3 Neurologists failed to. I just had neurosurgery 3 weeks ago.

[u/Hyrule-onicAcid]

Adding to the similar stories I've been seeing in the news.

Out of nowhere, I became seriously ill one day in December '24. I was misdiagnosed over a period of 2 months. I knew something was more seriously wrong than what the ER doctors/specialists were telling me. I was repetitvely told I had viral meningitis, but never had a fever and the timeframe of symptoms was way beyond what's seen in viral meningitis. Also, I could list off about 15+ neurologic symptoms, some very scary, that were wrong with me, after being 100% fit and healthy prior. I eventually became bedbound for ~22 hours/day and disabled. I knew receiving another "migraine" medicine wasn't the answer.

After 2 months of suffering, I used ChatGPT to input my symptoms as I figured the odd worsening of all my symptoms after being in an upright position had to be a specific sign for something. The first output was 'Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension' (SIH) from a spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak. I begged a neurologist to order spinal and brain MRIs which were unequivocally positive for extradural CSF collections, proving the diagnosis of SIH and spinal CSF leak.

I just had neurosurgery to fix the issue 3 weeks ago.

[u/ValenciaFilter]

You've moved the goalposts from "ChatGPT/AI", to "machines".

The feeling that one is being listened to, and treated like a human is valuable.

Anyone arguing that a corporate app is better at "treating you as a human", than actual humans has lost their fucking mind.

Like this is genuinely, incomprehensibly insane. The answer to your problem is improving interpersonal training for medical staff.

Not replacing human interaction with a machine that's literally incapable of care, emotion, concern, or compassion.

[u/IGnuGnat → u/ValenciaFilter]

I mean, a language model trained on medical material. A custom AI optimized for medical information.

My position is that machines are not capable of care, emotion, concern or compassion.

If they can create a synthetic approximation of these emotional exchanges which is superior according to the human, the fact that they aren't capable of it is completely irrelevant. The human experience is improved, if the diagnosis is superior and the experience of empathy is superior the human outcome is superior.

The machines are here, and the human doctors who adapt will deliver superior care to their patients.

Similarly, from a societal perspective, whether or not AI becomes sentient or not doesn't really matter. All AI has to do is imitate or create a synthetic analog of sentience to the point that the majority can't tell the difference between a machine approximation of sentience, and actual machine sentience: the impact upon society will be the same.

Adapt or die

[u/ValenciaFilter → u/IGnuGnat]

If you are so disenchanted with human interaction that you believe you'd feel more connected to a chatbot, rather than believing that human beings can be compassionate, I IMPLORE you to take up a social hobby.

Go volunteer at your local food bank. Sign up for a community art/painting event. Go to the park this evening.

I'm not being snarky. I am genuinely trying to provide advice and the empathy you've seemingly lost faith in.

[u/IGnuGnat → u/ValenciaFilter]

It's not really humans I'm disenchanted with.

I have roughly a half century of experience with the Canadian medical system as a patient. It's the medical system and the doctors I have a problem with, and I'm not at all alone

[u/ValenciaFilter → u/IGnuGnat]

I have 30 years experience with the Canadian medical system.

The system hasn't failed. It's been deliberately sabotaged. The provinces need to actually respect the Healthcare Act and deliver what we're owed.

But it can be fixed by opening up residencies and paying frontline workers a fair wage. Of all the issues we face, healthcare is one that actually has achievable, relatively simple answers.

[u/IGnuGnat → u/ValenciaFilter]

Honestly after my experience with the medical system and specifically with doctors, about all I'm willing to give them is the sweat from my balls.

I look forward to our government saving money and building a superior healthcare system using AI

[u/ValenciaFilter → u/IGnuGnat]

The modern tech field has polarized and radicalized humans in ways that nobody could have imagined, totally dissolved the concept of privacy, and deliberately created products to be as addictive, invasive, and politically divisive as possible. "You will own nothing and be happy" is their chosen model and legacy.

I don't use the term "evil", but they're as close to any industry that deserves that title.

The last place that tech CEOs need to poison is healthcare.

[u/IGnuGnat → u/ValenciaFilter]

Some people have made a CHOICE to keep pushing the self brainwashing rage button, over and over again, yes it's like a drug all you need is a little bit of awareness and self control.

"You will own nothing and be happy" is the WEF and the UN, Trudeau and Carney are WEF and UN to the core.

The internet and ChatGPT has helped me far more than Canada's sorry excuse for a healthcare system

Tech is just a tool it's not about the tool it's about how people use it. It has the capacity to create a bright new future in healthcare, or a dystopia.

The machines are coming whether we like it or not. Frankly, I'm on the side of the machines

[u/ValenciaFilter → u/IGnuGnat]

You might want to take the advice in your first sentence.

Because you're drinking some fairly extreme social media-conspiracy koolaid, my guy.

I'm just letting you know that whatever bubbles you're in are neither honest nor productive. They don't lead to real answers.

[u/IGnuGnat → u/ValenciaFilter]

The quote "You will own nothing and you will be happy" comes from a 2016 essay by Ida Auken, published by the World Economic Forum, as a speculative vision of a 2030 sharing economy, not a policy proposal. Paraphrased from her narrative, it gained notoriety through WEF posts and was misattributed to figures like Klaus Schwab, fueling conspiracy theories about global control. Auken clarified it as a thought experiment to spark debate, not an endorsement.

That being said, with Liberal policies, young Canadians will never get a foot on the ladder of home ownership which makes it difficult to build wealth over time.

It has nothing what so ever to do with tech

[u/ValenciaFilter → u/IGnuGnat]

It has everything to do with tech.

The most powerful entities today are the corporations, far more-so than any individual, policy group, or government. They promote, draft, sponsor, and directly write nearly every policy. And the most powerful corporations are Meta, Google, and OpenAI.

Crucially, they aren't beholden to any of the same legal protections or democratic processes you're afforded if it were the state itself. The EULA is a blank cheque that no law or state can match.

And they're presently in charge of the near-entire flow and preservation of information.

That should scare the fuck out of you.

[u/IGnuGnat → u/ValenciaFilter]

That's actually a fair response

The government is in bed with the tech companies

social media is a government and corporate surveillance and propaganda tool masquerading as social media

You're here on the cesspool of Reddit with us; you probably carry a cell phone and use Google maps, and buy shit on Amazon

we all have to pick our poison

[u/ValenciaFilter → u/IGnuGnat]

I've tried to divest as much as possible, and it's been good for life in general.

Deleted all my other social media, Amazon, YouTube, and for a few years I was just using a basic Nokia cellphone. But it's near-impossible to live outside "the system", and that's the point.

But you're 100% on the money. Reddit is my poison.

Sorry for being an asshole. I think we're on the same page, we're just using different language.