Tag: artificial intelligence
False balance in an NBC news story on whole body MRI scans
Over the weekend, NBC News aired a story on whole body MRI scans. Although it did include the usual cautions about false positives and the harm they cause, the caution was diluted by the story's focus a rare case of a woman who had a brain tumor detected. Overall, it was false balance that reminded me of vaccine/autism stories 20 years ago.
Misinformation is pervasive, and AI will turbocharge it
Is it possible to refute an infinite amount of AI-generated health misinformation?
The return of marketing hype for “whole body scans”…now with AI!
Two decades ago, I cut my skeptical teeth countering advertising for whole body scans by companies making extravagant promises for their products. This particular medical fad faded for a while, but now it's back with a vengeance...with AI! Looking at these products, what I see is basically the quackery that is functional medicine on steroids and powered by AI.
Homeopathy + AI = Still Nonsense
Artificial Intelligence can't make pseudoscience real
AI as a Diagnostic Tool
Using AI systems for pattern recognition in early diagnosis of dementia shows the potential of this tool.
ChatGPT as a Medical Expert System
Will ChatGPT and applications like it transform medicine? If we want it to.
AI Medical Tutoring Systems
Using AI powered virtual training systems can be a boon to medical education and practice.
Using AI Technology To Treat Mental Illness
AI will likely play a big role in treating mental illness in the future, but quack uses are also likely to proliferate.
Artificial Intelligence and Science-Based Medicine
AI tools in medicine are coming, and they can be powerful, but we have to manage how they are employed.
Update on Dr. AI
Studies have found large language model AIs to have impressive medical knowledge, but they are not quite there yet.