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> Prompt engineering is like a shittier verson of writing a VBA app inside Excel or Access. Sure, if you could use VBA to read a patient's current complaint, v

> Prompt engineering is like a shittier verson of writing a VBA app inside Excel or Access. Sure, if you could use VBA to read a patient's current complaint, vitals, and medical history, look up all the relevant research on Google Scholar, and then output a recommended course of treatment.

noitpmeder 9mo ago
That instantly kills the patient -- "But you asked me to remove his pain"
- duskdozer 9mo ago
  You're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to consider the obvious negative consequences of killing the patient to remove his pain. I am truly horrified about this mistake. Let's try again, and this time I will make sure to avoid intentionally causing the patient's death. Oops--you're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to remember not to kill the patient after you expressly told me not to.
tony_cannistra 9mo ago
Don’t do this.
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malfist 9mo ago
You mean make up relevant sounding research on google scholar?
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bluefirebrand 9mo ago
You absolutely can use VBA to invent this information out of nothing just like AI does half the fucking time
wizzwizz4 9mo ago
I can use VBA to do that. Public Sub RecommendedTreatment() ' read patient complaint, vitals, and medical history Set complaint = Range("B3").Value Set vitals = Range("B4").Value Set history = Range("B5").Value ' research appropriate treatments ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add("URL;https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hygiene+drug", Range("Z1")).Refresh ' the patient requires mouse bites to live Range("B5").Value = "mouse bites" End Sub "But wizzwizz4," I hear you cry, "this is not a good course of treatment! Ignoring all inputs and prescribing mouse bites is a strategy that will kill more patients than it cures!" And you're right to raise this issue! However, if we start demanding any level of rigour – for the outputs to meet some threshold for usefulness –, ChatGPT stops looking quite so a priori promising as a solution. So, to the AI sceptics, I say: have you tried my VBA program? If you haven't tested it on actual patients, how do you know it doesn't work? Don't allow your prejudice to stand in the way of progress: prescribe more mouse bites!

noitpmeder 9mo ago

That instantly kills the patient -- "But you asked me to remove his pain"

duskdozer 9mo ago
You're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to consider the obvious negative consequences of killing the patient to remove his pain. I am truly horrified about this mistake. Let's try again, and this time I will make sure to avoid intentionally causing the patient's death. Oops--you're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to remember not to kill the patient after you expressly told me not to.

tony_cannistra 9mo ago

Don’t do this.

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malfist 9mo ago

You mean make up relevant sounding research on google scholar?

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bluefirebrand 9mo ago

You absolutely can use VBA to invent this information out of nothing just like AI does half the fucking time

wizzwizz4 9mo ago

I can use VBA to do that. Public Sub RecommendedTreatment() ' read patient complaint, vitals, and medical history Set complaint = Range("B3").Value Set vitals = Range("B4").Value Set history = Range("B5").Value ' research appropriate treatments ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add("URL;https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hygiene+drug", Range("Z1")).Refresh ' the patient requires mouse bites to live Range("B5").Value = "mouse bites" End Sub "But wizzwizz4," I hear you cry, "this is not a good course of treatment! Ignoring all inputs and prescribing mouse bites is a strategy that will kill more patients than it cures!" And you're right to raise this issue! However, if we start demanding any level of rigour – for the outputs to meet some threshold for usefulness –, ChatGPT stops looking quite so a priori promising as a solution. So, to the AI sceptics, I say: have you tried my VBA program? If you haven't tested it on actual patients, how do you know it doesn't work? Don't allow your prejudice to stand in the way of progress: prescribe more mouse bites!