7 links for the week ahead
- Anthropic (2024-06-21). Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
- Neil Selwyn (2024-06-18). A School Principal Using AI to Produce ‘Personalised’ Video Greetings for Each of His School’s New Students.
- Rachel Gordon (2024-06-11). AI Decodes Sperm Whale Language, Revealing a Complex System of Communication.
- Beth McMurtrie (2024-06-13). Professors Ask: Are We Just Grading Robots?.
- Celine Nguyen (2024-05-27). Research as leisure activity.
- Donald Clark (2023-04-04). Are We on the Verge of Having a ‘Universal Teacher’?
- Gary Marcus (2023-01-14). Scientists, Please Don’t Let Your Chatbots Grow Up to Be Co-Authors.
Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI
Tu, T., et al. (2024). Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI (No. arXiv:2401.05654). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05654
At the heart of medicine lies the physician-patient dialogue, where skillful history-taking paves the way for accurate diagnosis, effective management, and enduring trust. Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems capable of diagnostic dialogue could increase accessibility, consistency, and quality of care. Here, we introduce AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), a Large Language Model (LLM) based AI system optimized for diagnostic dialogue. We designed a framework for evaluating clinically-meaningful axes of performance including history-taking, diagnostic accuracy, management reasoning, communication skills, and empathy. We compared AMIE’s performance to that of primary care physicians (PCPs) in a randomized, double-blind crossover study of text-based consultations with validated patient actors in the style of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). AMIE demonstrated greater diagnostic accuracy and superior performance on 28 of 32 axes according to specialist physicians and 24 of 26 axes according to patient actors. While further research is required before AMIE could be translated to real-world settings, the results represent a milestone towards conversational diagnostic AI.
Namibian night sky
Moss And Fog (2024-06-16). Incredible Namibian Night Sky.
The famous dead trees you’ve seen in photos are part of the Deadvlei, a white clay pan so dry, that the tree skeletons can’t even decompose, and have stood rigid for over 700 years.