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Is anyone else using AI like ChatGPT

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: 8 hours ago | Replies (17)

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@jeffmarc

The thing is, How you word a query to an AI or just google is critical. Since I was in the computer field for 50 years, 25 as programmer with a dozen+ languages, 25 years doing all support for companies with up to 30 people. When I ran the consulting company I found that people do not Know how to write a question. They leave out main factors, they don’t pose the question in a way that relates to exactly what they’re asking. It makes it very difficult to find answers when you can’t pose the question exactly

Your idea about just pasting in the full medical explanation is probably the best way to do it. There might be words in front or behind it that could more closely clarify it so that the AI can get the answer right. I would prefix every question with something like “ Have prostate cancer got these results, What do they mean for me?”

I use google and Duck duck go as well as Perplexity. Just searching in the regular search engines works fine if you can pose the question properly. Perplexity works well with very complex technical questions.

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Once you build a project it will keep re-evaluating It gives you a much better view of progress and will recommend questions for your oncologist and primary doctor, it has links to published articles and has helped me with my diet. Not saying live or die by it but a great sounding board!

And like you, I have been in IT for 50+ years!!

There actually is a job called a prompt engineer for just the purpose @jeffmarc is describing. Every AI tool has its strengths and weaknesses and as these tools start to identify the sources and score their database validity, the trust for the answers will increase but generally ai is a great tool to collaborate with and get some medical insight especially for those that don't know about Mayo connect or have doctors who do not have the time or experience to answer a slew of questions.