8 comments

  • matteoraso29 minutes ago
    &gt;A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency. It’s led to delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns.<p>You should post the entire title.
    • dqv22 minutes ago
      Unable to titlemax due to HN maxtitle rules.
      • kshacker14 minutes ago
        I don&#x27;t post often or ever so don&#x27;t remember, you can&#x27;t change the title to be more reflective of what it is?<p>A shorter version may be<p>&gt; A Vermont pharmacy chain&#x27;s AI implementation led to delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns.
        • dqv9 minutes ago
          You can try, but then a different group of people might come around and say it&#x27;s editorializing.
        • ivewonyoung8 minutes ago
          That&#x27;s 102 characters, HN&#x27;s limit is 80.
          • rationalist2 minutes ago
            Vermont pharmacy AI rollout leads to delays, misinformation, and privacy concerns
    • rationalist6 minutes ago
      Eh, I was kind of expecting that to be the rest of the title when I clicked on it.
  • Avicebron13 minutes ago
    It seems like the article&#x27;s unspoken consensus is if they hired people (ideally local) and paid them a living wage it would go back to working well enough like it did before they attempted the bot.<p>I wonder why no one brought that up as a solution?
    • asdf889908 minutes ago
      Because corporates operate on a religion with forever changing principles with trends and speaking against the vogue trend is taboo.
  • sghiassy26 minutes ago
    Honest question, why aren’t pills dispensed by machines?<p>I get that a pharmacist should review the prescription. And let’s say you even want employee-customer interaction; which is great.<p>But dispensing X pills from one bottle to another bottle is a solved problem right?
    • estearum20 minutes ago
      Machines cost a ton of money and need to be maintained?<p>As those two variables change, I&#x27;m sure they will replace the dispensing function for pharmacists. In fact this already does happen at a lot of pharmacies these days. Machines put the pills in bottles, then a pharmacist hands the bottle to you.
    • DriverDaily11 minutes ago
      I think that’s the idea behind those centralized pharmacies like Amazon health. Easier than putting a pill dispensing assembly line in every CVS.
    • a2tech19 minutes ago
      They are in large setups. Including mail order and bulk dispensing places (like Walmart pharmacy—most pills are dispensed at central locations and delivered to the store prepackaged).
    • calvinmorrison19 minutes ago
      There are pill counter machines! it&#x27;s a solved problem for sure.
  • gtowey33 minutes ago
    &gt; “I’ve got four bottles of something that I take twice a week sitting here,” Callaghan said.<p>Profits are up! A smashing success!
  • firasd18 minutes ago
    A paradoxical situation here is that they are probably not using the frontier models because compliance and other stamps of approval but this packaged approved AI is making silly mistakes in reading forms
  • svitlak18 minutes ago
    unrelated, but post&#x27;s photo - the building - reminds me a cat face
  • champagnepapi11 minutes ago
    When is this madness going to stop? We need to do better as a society.