Even if it's passed the USMLE, #ChatGPT is not an MD.
LLMs aren't constrained to truth, and ChatGPT's biggest hurdle for #healthcare applications is "AI hallucination" (that is, confidently making stuff up.)
The biggest fear is that ChatGPT is right enough of the time to give the "impression of greatness," per CEO Sam Altman.
But its agnosticism to truth, propensity to make up references, and not-up-to-date knowledge could make it a big problem in medicine. statnews.com/2023/01/26/cha…
I didn't cover this in my story, but @NewsGuardRating has an excellent piece on how ChatGPT could become (or maybe already is) a low-barrier source of #misinformation.
Right now, federally funded research from large US agencies has to be publicly available 12 months after it's published.
This policy, which went into effect in 2016, has let millions of taxpayers read the work they're funding. (2/7)
However, I had no idea that some of my own papers are freely available online because when I try to access them on the journal site, I still get hit with a paywall. (3/7)
PFAS are environmental pollutants linked to negative health effects at exposure levels so low that the US EPA recently set a drinking water health advisory limit that is lower than we can measure
In the last few years, the field has gotten pretty good at removing PFAS from water.
Our group in particular has made several regenerable PFAS adsorbents. But every time we present this research, someone asks 🙋♂️ "What do you do with the PFAS after you've desorbed it?"