Alex and Emily are taking another stab at Google and other companies' aspirations to be part of the healthcare system - this time with the expertise of Stanford incoming assistant professor of dermatology and biomedical data science Roxana Daneshjou. A look at the gap between medical licensing examination questions and real life, and the inherently two-tiered system that might emerge if LLMs are brought into the diagnostic process.
References:
Google blog post describing Med-PaLM:
https://sites.research.google/med-palm/
Nature: Large language models encode clinical knowledge:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06291-2
Politico: Microsoft teaming up with Epic Systems to integrate generative AI into electronic medical records software
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2023/08/24/a-health-care-ai-pact-that-matters-00112463
MedRXiv: Beyond the hype: large language models propagate race-based medicine (Omiye, Daneshjou, et al)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.03.23292192v1.full.pdf
Fresh AI hell:
Fake summaries of fake reviews:
https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.bsky.social/post/3k4wouet3pg2u
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-begins-rolling-out-ai-generated-review-summaries-164510165.html
School administrators asking ChatGPT which books they have to remove from school libraries, given Iowa’s book ban:
https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/
“Each of these texts was reviewed using AI software to determine if it contains a depiction of a sex act. Based on this review, there are 19 texts that will be removed from our 7-12 school library collections and stored in the Administrative Center while we await further guidance or clarity.”
https://globegazette.com/news/local/book-ban-implemented-in-mason-city-school-library/article_1e45064a-386a-11ee-82f7-c3e222c4871a.html
Loquacity and Visible Emotion: ChatGPT as a Policy Advisor
Written by authors at the Bank of Italy
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4533699
AI generated school bus routes get students home at 10pm:
https://www.wdrb.com/news/education/jcps-bus-routes-generated-by-software-with-flawed-track-record-in-another-district/article_448ccd7a-3783-11ee-a2d8-dfef3db3eb07.html
Lethal AI generated books
https://mastodon.world/@rosamundi/110909701501300643
How would RBG respond?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7100766139445596160/
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