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For those of you who have asked recent LLMs questions in your area of expertise, how accurate are the responses? What is your field and what models are you using?
I'm in the biomedical engineering field. I last used ChatGPT-4o months ago and found the answers to be quite terrible, like what I might expect from someone who only watched a youtube video on the topic. Reading it felt uncanny valley in a way that reminded me vaguely of watching a movie scene with cheap green-screen effects — I could feel the lack of substance viscerally. It left a bad impression and, with my slightly Luddite disposition, I largely ignored LLMs for anything but coding since.
I recently needed a good layman explanation for a project and asked Grok 3. I came away genuinely impressed. I asked it to expand on certain points more rigorously and even formulated a few questions that would be appropriate for a graduate level course, and it did all of this so well it even improved my own understanding of some aspects. When I get time, I’ll try to poke and prod to see if I can find gaps or limits, but it has genuinely changed my view of LLMs. Previously, I felt like they were only really good for coding and expected they would hit diminishing returns, but I’m less sure now.
That is literally their training data.
But they improve fast - when it comes to lets say give diagnosis based on symptoms - they really hit the mark. I had a doctor friend of mine test it with real cases they had
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