Peter Lee - The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond

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The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It will change the way people work, learn, and communicateand transform healthcare. AI is already being used to improve how diseases are detected and diagnosed. In the future, it will help accelerate research breakthroughs and make accurate, reliable medical advice available to those who never get to see a doctor. AI is a powerful tool that can reduce inequity and improve life for millions of people around the world. But it must be managed carefully to ensure its benefits outweigh the risks. Im encouraged to see this early exploration of the opportunities and responsibilities of AI in medicine.

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The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond

BY PETER LEE, CAREY GOLDBERG, AND ISAAC KOHANE WITH SBASTIEN BUBECK

The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond (Lee, Goldberg, Kohane)

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Copyright 2023 by Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-820013-8

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023934948

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This book is a work in progress.

First, because AI entities like GPT-4 themselves are advancing so rapidly that the AI-human dialogues we use here inevitably become outdated within weeks.

And second, because this book is only an initial foray into one area medicine of what we expect to become a humanity-wide discussion about how best to harness the astonishing AI capabilities now emerging.

We hope, however, that it can serve as a model for ways to launch that discussion: It is based on extensive, carefully analyzed interactions with the AI. It lays out well-documented strengths and weaknesses. And it just barely begins to grapple with the urgent question: Given all this, what is to be done, long-term and right now?

About the text:

GPT-4 responses have often been shortened but never altered.

Zak and Peter bring their professional expertise to their writing but neither Harvard Medical School, Microsoft, nor OpenAI had any editorial control over this book.