ChatGPT and medicine’s future

[ProRealDoc]

5 Ways ChatGPT Will Change Healthcare Forever, For Better

Generative AI will transform medicine as we know it. In the same way the iPhone become an essential part of our lives in what seemed like no time, ChatGPT (or whatever generative AI tool leads the way) will alter medical practice forever and for better.

www.forbes.com

Can this technology replace some clinicians? Is it time to invest in AI?

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[chessknt]

Will it be as revolutionary as crypto has been???11

Seriously though just go over to it and ask it to answer a medical question. Pitch a case and ask it questions like you'd ask a resident. You'll quickly find you actually have nothing to be concerned about and that the people writing these articles know even less about medicine than hospital admins.

 

[RadOncDoc21]

Will it be as revolutionary as crypto has been???11

Seriously though just go over to it and ask it to answer a medical question. Pitch a case and ask it questions like you'd ask a resident. You'll quickly find you actually have nothing to be concerned about and that the people writing these articles know even less about medicine than hospital admins.

Yea but the admins I’ve experienced are only concerned about cutting cost and less about what is good for society.

 

[Onefellswoop87]

I don’t see AI’s predictive clinical “skills” to be practical anytime soon. The problem with AI is that it doesn’t have clinical gestalt to know which variables or parameters are irrelevant. Each data point needs a weight associated with it that has to be programmed for it to compile to get to an answer.

I went to a talk a few years ago about AI in the OR and they ended with a real example where the team tried to make alarms practical and useful for hypotension and MH. The BP alarmed too frequently and was not clinical predicative. The MH alarmed whenever the EtCO2 made an increasing trend. Insufflation? Yup, it’s MH. Temp made an increase that it deemed was “too quick” even if it stopped at physiologic temp? Yup, MH. At least they were honest about their alarm goals and how it didn’t work yet

Granted this lecture was a few years ago and computer advancements move fast, but it was before that talk that Wilson won Jeopardy and people talked about you’d see Dr. Wilson in clinic. Hasn’t happened yet.

 

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[coffeebythelake]

we can let ChatGPT handle the Karens in thr hospital

 

[ProRealDoc]

I’m not concerned about it replacing anesthesiologists anytime soon but could see applications in radiology, pathology and primary care specialty areas where hands-on skills are not the norm.

 

[voxveritatisetlucis]

hurt every other job before physicians

 

[pgg]

We'll see AI eliminate diagnostic radiology as a specialty loooong before we see AI replace FP as a specialty.

The former, maybe in our lifetimes? (I plan to live a long time.) The latter? I doubt it.

 

[shepardsun]

Stop Treating Chatgpt Like It Knows Anything

 

[vector2]

Stop Treating Chatgpt Like It Knows Anything

I find its utility to simply be its ability to parse, organize, and present pre-existing knowledge/information in a very natural way. Like a search engine on steroids.

Ultimately though, its language "ability" (i.e. write me a sonnet describing the mechanism of sugammadex in the style of Shakespeare) is nothing but a [very clever] parlor trick- not any kind of genuine "intelligence" as we understand the word.

 

[wendalltwolf]

There’s a thread about using it for insurance appeals