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   Patients Bring AI Diagnoses to Doctors, Raising Safety Concerns

   Huxiu AI reports that many Chinese patients use AI to check symptoms or obtain medical advice before visiting a doctor, with a survey of 1,333 respondents finding that 69.7% had brought AI-generated advice to a consultation. The article says the viral hospital notice circulating on social media was a joke rather than a real announcement, while documenting a case in which a child received delayed evaluation because a parent relied on an AI answer. It argues that AI is more useful for organizing symptoms, medication information and questions than for making diagnoses.

   虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0
2. Oct 8
   GPT-6 Astra finds exact plasma equilibria, overturning 59-year-old Grad conjecture

   University of Maryland plasma physicist Matt Landreman prompted GPT-6 Astra Pro to design an asymmetric three-dimensional plasma equilibrium; the model returned a family of exact analytic solutions in 20 minutes 34 seconds and, the next day, after a failed first attempt plus a proof that the first construction could not yield a non-integer rotational transform, produced a second family with magnetic shear in 33 minutes 37 seconds. Two arXiv papers published a day apart in late September overturn Harold Grad's 1967 conjecture: Landreman's paper credits GPT-6 Astra Pro in its acknowledgements, says parts were drafted by it, and publishes the prompts and verification scripts. A separate 147-page paper, "Counterexamples to the Grad conjecture," from Brown, Oxford and Bar-Ilan researchers used GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5 for technical detail and computation, and ships a Lean 4 formalisation.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0

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