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For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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[-] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

the AI is actually just a coin with the word 'denied' written on both sides

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

The more I see of American style healthcare the more I want my Canadian healthcare.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

The Cons are coming for it. Look at what Dumb Shit is doing in Alberta.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

It's a very advanced algorithm.

Step 1: would we cover this? No: all good. Yes: consult AI.

Step 2: is the AI recommending we cover this? No: all good. Yes: reconfigure AI and go to step 2.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

It's not a bug, it's a feature 👍

[-] ech@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

"error" suggests it's not the intended result.

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I thought the same thing, like "damn who uses a model with a 10% accuracy on its training data?"

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately UnitedHealth is big enough that they will pay less than they made.

[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone company using AI for actual business, without a disclaimer, is daf.

The money made them believe it's ready to go live.

These are the people giving AI a bad name.

[-] gullible@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

This feels like a recurrence of the dumbassery of yesterdecade with the excitement over algorithms. AI simply is not ready for these sorts of applications. That it was put in charge of anything with any degree of gravity is already a massive failure.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

AI is literally a more complicated algorithm.

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