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Isaac “Zak” Kohane is the chair of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical College. He’s uniquely located for the explosion of AI in well being care, having a Ph.D. in pc science in addition to an M.D. He’s additionally been a proponent of utilizing medical trials to check the effectiveness of AI in medication.
Final fall, he proposed in NEJM one thing I believed was attention-grabbing: Testing ChatGPT’s recommendation not in opposition to physician’s recommendation, however in opposition to the real-world different to asking Dr. Google or Dr. ChatGPT: Not going to the physician in any respect. Nevertheless, that comes with trade-offs, as we noticed a pair weeks in the past — not together with the absolute best management group means we miss out on studying the place AI’s benefits are in comparison with different strategies.
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