MAY , 2023 | THE HEALTH

While ChatGPT has the potential to provide rising and exciting prospects for the academic community , but also faces substantial problems

DR WAEL MY MOHAMED

The potential of AI to deliver accurate and safe treatment guidance might alter how we approach patient care at a time when the emergence of antibiotic resistance poses a huge danger to global health . We anticipate further research into this technology with great interest because of its potential applications in health care . There were still limitations and unreliabilities , but ChatGPT could answer certain open-ended medical concerns nearly as effectively as the typical human physician could .

The inherent danger of experimenting with cutting-edge technology compels everyone involved to proceed with extreme care . As AI finds more and more uses in the medical field , several questions about how the law will need to change to accommodate it arise .

If ChatGPT were a human test taker , it would have aced the vast majority of the questions . Nevertheless , it was hard for the chatbot to respond to in-depth interview questions about the candidate ’ s personal life since it lacked empathy , memory , and other human traits . ChatGPT excels in answering challenging questions , presenting logical arguments , and having complicated discussions , but it cannot show adequate proof of its “ humanness ” because it lacks personal experiences and sentiments .

Technology has been shown to be capable of writing convincing phony scientific abstracts , a task that does not involve human emotion , according to a paper released In April . Researchers from Northwestern Medicine found that reviewers of a database of scientific abstracts were only able to identify fraudulent papers 68 per cent of the time .

This implies that ChatGPT might be used incorrectly to “ outsmart ” people , which would reduce its universal accessibility . The model ’ s creator , OpenAI , admits that

ChatGPT ’ s inability to access the internet means it may provide inaccurate results . ChatGPT ’ s limited understanding of “ events after 2021 ” or the most recent version of data it was trained on further reduces its accuracy .

USEFUL RESOURCE FOR IMPROVING HEALTHCARE

In addition , the AI model receives reinforcement whenever it correctly identifies and predicts patterns within the training data . This information is then used during execution , however in a medical environment , particularly when summarising patient notes , it might lead to incorrect predictions of occurrences and treatments that never occurred . Not being able to access PHI ( protected health information ) is another major shortcoming of ChatGPT . Thus , it is a violation of the Act and terms of service to employ the model in healthcare processes ( such as clinical note analysis and summary ) if Open AI has access to protected patient data .

ChatGPT is still in its early stages as a machine-learning model and cannot yet fully replace human medical professionals . It ’ s a useful resource for improving healthcare workers ’ efficiency and effectiveness . Advances in natural language processing ( NLP ) methods and other artificial intelligence technologies are on the threshold of ushering in a huge transformation in the healthcare business . We are being given a sneak peek into the future of medicine with the release of ChatGPT and other recent advances in healthcare-related AI .

Patients will now have access to the full potential of exponential technologies thanks to the deluge of healthcare data that is rapidly becoming accessible . As the focus of medicine turns from treating individual symptoms to keeping patients healthy over time , the availability of large amounts of data and the use of AI by scientists will greatly advance the field of longevity studies . The issue , though , is whether or not we are prepared for this transformation .

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN ACADEMIA

Another dilemma is that the educational , pedagogical , and research implications

ChatGPT is still in its early stages as a machinelearning model and cannot yet fully replace human medical professionals . It ’ s a useful resource for improving healthcare workers ’ efficiency and effectiveness .” of ChatGPT and other contemporary AI technologies are mixed . It has been suggested by researchers that ChatGPT should be used in the classroom to help teachers and pupils . According to cuttingedge research created in large part using ChatGPT , the programme has the potential to provide rising and exciting prospects for the academic community , but also faces substantial problems .

ChatGPT , released in November 2022 , is the newest chatbot and AI platform heralded for its ability to transform academia . With its increasing sophistication , however , the technology has also raised worries about academic dishonesty and plagiarism .

AI is now available to students outside of academic institutions , and tech giants like Microsoft and Google are fast embedding it into their products like the Chrome web browser and the Office suite . The cat is out of the bag so to speak , so colleges must now adjust to a new paradigm in which AI usage is taken for granted .

With every new revolutionary technology - and this is a revolutionary technology - there will be winners and losers . Those who can ’ t adjust to the new normal will fall behind .

The successful ones will be the practical ones who figure out how to use this technology to their advantage . Whatever the future holds for academic technology , this should act as a wake-up call to faculty members to re-evaluate the manner they conduct assessments and the steps they take to prevent academic dishonesty .

CHATGPT WON ’ T DO YOUR JOB BUT CAN HELP

It is crucial that we be ready to harness the potential of AI and data to enhance the health and well-being of the public as we continue to push the limits of AI and NLP in healthcare . We must also be ready to deal with the ethical and social repercussions of this technology .

At the end of the day , it ’ s becoming more and more clear that adapting to these changes and seizing the possibilities AI brings is essential to maintaining relevance and competitiveness in the healthcare business . – The Health

Dr Wael MY Mohamed is with the Department of Basic Medical Science , Kulliyyah of Medicine , International Islamic University Malaysia ( IIUM ).