Last week I went to a highly-specialized tertiary clinic about further treatment for a rare medical condition that I was diagnosed and treated for as a child. The two very specialized doctors I met there confirmed a diagnostic mistake that a specialist had made ten years ago. The only reason I pursued a second opinion, ten years later, was because Google Gemini had explained to me that the specialist ten years ago had performed the wrong type of test for my condition. Do these LLMs make mistakes? They sure do, I see it all the time. But they can also help people make breakthroughs. And this isn't the only time that Gemini has helped me diagnose long-term health issues, either. I am not advocating to trust anything they say blindly, but they can be a great place to form new hypotheses and learn the right terms to look for when you are unfamiliar with a subject.
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- 2026-06
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- 2026-09-06