Peter Lee has spent a lot of time recently with GPT-4, the AI-powered tool that simulates human conversation, built by OpenAI with contributions from its partner Microsoft.
“I lost a couple weeks of sleep,” said Lee at a lecture at the University of Washington. “It was very intense.”
Lee, head of Microsoft Research, is tasked with assessing the implications of the tool for medicine. And he thinks it could increase efficiency and even empathy in the healthcare system, as well as boost biomedical research, GeekWire reports.
GPT-4 has “amazing capabilities” Lee said during his lecture. And for medicine, “it ends up being a really potentially useful tool.”
Lee and his colleagues outlined some potential use cases in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), released Thursday. These include supporting diagnoses, improving doctor-patient conversations, and reducing online paperwork.
“The paperwork burden on doctors and nurses is just dreadful,” said Lee in a separate interview with GeekWire. Of all applications, easing medical documentation and similar burdens is the one he thinks the most about. Read more.
