LLM, MD: AI health bots are coming

LLM,医学博士:AI健康机器人即将到来

Babbage from The Economist

2025-06-05

35 分钟

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The large language models underpinning generative AI have tremendous potential to wrangle messy medical data, chat with patients about their personal health, make diagnoses, and even suggest medications and make appointments. But how to ensure that data are kept private and the advice is trustworthy? We meet some of the researchers trying to develop the long-touted doctor in your pocket. Host: Alok Jha, The Economist's science and technology editor, with Natasha Loder, our health editor. Contributors: Claire Novorol of ADA Health; Adam Rodman and Jason Gusdorf of Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre. For more on this topic, listen to our two-part series on AI in health care, published in May 2024. Transcripts of our podcasts are available via economist.com/podcasts. Listen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.
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  • The Economist. Hello, I'm Dr. Smith.

  • How are you today?

  • Can you please tell me your name, age, and what brings you in for this consultation?

  • My name is Jason.

  • I'm 31 years old, and I guess I've just been having some difficulty sleeping.

  • Jason Gustaf is a doctor at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • I'm sorry to hear that, Jason.

  • When did you first notice the trouble sleeping?

  • Jason is taking on the role of a patient and talking to a healthcare-focused chatbot,

  • which runs on OpenAI's ChatGPT.

  • This is a model that we've created.

  • Basically, we create a prompt to ask ChatGPT 4.0 to pretend to be a telehealth physician.

  • And we've created some clinical vignettes that we think are not extremely simple,

  • but... are not extremely complicated.

  • They have some important nuances that we want to see if the large language model can pick up.

  • Have you noticed any recent changes in your life or routine that might be contributing to this?

  • Well, work has been really difficult recently.

  • You know,

  • I guess about the same time I haven't been working out as much or hanging out with my friends as much.

  • And about six months ago, my dad passed away.