Will Artificial Intelligence Help — Or Hurt — Medicine?

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

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A doctor's job is to help patients. With that help, often comes lots and lots of paperwork. That's where some startups are betting artificial intelligence may come in. The hope is that chatbots could generate data like treatment plans that would let doctors spend less time on paperwork and more time with their patients. But some academics warn biases and errors could hurt patients.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Hey, hey, Sharer Ravers, Emily Quang here.
0:07.6	Our quest to dissect artificial intelligence continues with my friend Jeff Frumfield from
0:13.5	the NPR Science Desk.
0:15.1	Hi, Jeff.
0:16.1	Hi, Emily.
0:17.1	Hi.
0:18.1	Okay.
0:19.1	It honestly seems like everyone is trying out Chad G.B.T. these days, including medical professionals.
0:23.0	You told me about this guy, Cliff Sturmer, a rheumatologist on TikTok.
0:27.5	Save time, save efforts.
0:29.3	Use these programs, Chad G.B.T. to help out in your medical practice.
0:33.9	Which is wild to me because he's not alone.
0:37.0	Cliff, like a lot of doctors, has been playing around with Chad G.B.T. to see if it could
0:41.6	help save time on paperwork.
0:43.9	And I've learned from you that some tech companies and startups are offering to build systems
0:48.4	for this very thing for medical paperwork.
0:50.8	That's right.
0:51.8	Yeah, it's really interesting.
0:53.3	There are a number of ways these AI programs that can generate things like stories and
0:58.2	poems could potentially help out with all the stacks of notes and things that doctors
1:03.8	have to do.
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