By Mark Watts
Howard Wong was the Centennial High School valedictorian, number one in a class of 400 in my class. I recently reconnected with him on LinkedIn. He is living in Hong Kong building sustainable housing.
Our mutual high school class education environment has acted as a foundational launching point for growth. This common general education has led to career success for David K. in the entertainment business. Cal B. in a military career resulting in his flying four U.S. presidents on Air Force One. Ted F. is an Olympic sports medicine provider and renown lecturer. Greg D. was a driving force in the growth of Nike into a global brand. Stephanie and Cynthia have developed Realtor empires.
Artificial Intelligence has a new entrant that is going to disrupt our understanding of all these classmates’ lives – ChatGPT.
This Foundational Model ChatGPT, sometimes referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), is equal to the average intelligence of a high schooler’s general knowledge in science, art, music and history.
When I asked ChatGPT, “How will ChatGPT transform health care?”
The reply was: “ChatGPT is a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tool that has the potential to transform the health care industry in several ways. Here are just a few examples of how ChatGPT could be used to improve health care:
1. Improving patient care: ChatGPT could be used to assist health care providers in making more accurate diagnoses and treatment recommendations by providing real-time decision support. For example, a doctor could input a patient’s symptoms and ChatGPT could suggest a list of possible conditions and treatment options.
2. Enhancing communication: ChatGPT could be used to improve communication between health care providers and patients, especially in cases where language barriers are an issue. By using natural language processing (NLP) to understand and respond to patient questions and concerns, ChatGPT could help to ensure that patients receive the information they need in a way that is easy for them to understand.
3. Reducing workload: ChatGPT could be used to automate routine tasks and processes, such as scheduling appointments or answering frequently asked questions. This could help to reduce the workload for health care providers, freeing them up to focus on more complex tasks that require their expertise.
4. Improving accessibility: ChatGPT could be used to improve access to health care for underserved populations, such as those in rural areas or those with disabilities. By providing virtual consultations and other remote services, ChatGPT could help to bridge the gap between patients and health care providers.”
In conclusion, ChatGPT has the potential to be a valuable tool for improving health care in several ways. By leveraging its powerful AI capabilities, health care providers can enhance patient care, improve communication, reduce workload and improve accessibility.
I then asked ChatGPT, ”How can ChatGPT improve the journey for patients with cancer?”
The reply was: “Here are a few ways in which ChatGPT can improve the journey for patients with a cancer diagnosis:
1. Providing information and support: ChatGPT can be used to provide patients with information about their cancer diagnosis and treatment options, as well as to answer questions and provide emotional support.
2. Facilitating communication with providers: ChatGPT can help patients to communicate more easily with their health care providers, allowing them to ask questions and get updates on their treatment progress without having to make in-person appointments.
3. Coordinating care: ChatGPT can be used to coordinate care among multiple providers, helping patients to navigate the complex health care system and ensure that they are receiving the right treatments at the right times.
4. Monitoring treatment adherence: ChatGPT can be used to monitor treatment adherence, reminding patients to take their medications, and providing support if they are having difficulty with their treatment regimen.
5. Providing personalized recommendations: ChatGPT can be used to provide patients with personalized recommendations for things like symptom management, nutrition and lifestyle changes based on their specific cancer diagnosis and treatment plan.”
This all seems a bit sophomoric in the reply.
Think about how much you learned from birth until you graduated from high school – body care, language, writing, reading, social norms. This is the new starting point for the development of artificial intelligence. These AGI will be the new general knowledge foundation for the development of specific AI layers on top.
AGI plus specific knowledge in layer for first-year law school, first-year engineering, code writing and, yes, medicine.
AGI has the potential to drive down the cost of knowledge work and advance research by a hundredfold.
AI is trained currently from small data sets to solve small narrow problems. This is going to be big.
It will force me to re-evaluate my first article in ICE magazine, “AI Will Not Replace Radiologists.”
I see the development of an ecosystem that provides for pseudo radiologists like the current physician assistants model. Radiologist extenders.
I will go into detail in my next article.
Artists are skilled and yet here are some examples of AI I have generated beyond my training or skill.
AI plus Chest X-ray.
Mark Watts is an experienced imaging professional who founded an AI company called Zenlike.ai.
