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21 claims from 12 papers

  1. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models

    Kung, Cheatham, ChatGPT et al. · PLOS Digital Health · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“ChatGPT performed at or near the passing threshold for all three exams without any specialized training or reinforcement.”
  2. Medicine

    arXiv 2306.10070

    arXiv 2306.10070: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“We also find that the use of LLMs, like ChatGPT, in the fields of biomedicine and health entails various risks and challenges, including fabricated information in its generated responses, as well as legal and privacy concerns associated with sensitive patien…
    2. Unchecked“For other applications, the advances have been modest.”
  3. Medicine

    arXiv cond-mat/0207194

    arXiv cond-mat/0207194: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“We show the existence of an intermediate phase in the satisfiable region, where the proliferation of metastable states is at the origin of the slowdown of search algorithms.”
  4. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge

    Singhal, Azizi, Tao et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Using a combination of prompting strategies, Flan-PaLM achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on every MultiMedQA multiple-choice dataset (MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, MMLU clinical topics), including 67.6% accuracy on MedQA (US Medical License Exam questions), sur…
    2. Unchecked“The resulting model, Med-PaLM, performs encouragingly, but remains inferior to clinicians.”
    3. Unchecked“We show that comprehension, recall of knowledge, and medical reasoning improve with model scale and instruction prompt tuning, suggesting the potential utility of LLMs in medicine.”
  5. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Evaluating large language models on a highly-specialized topic, radiation oncology physics

    Holmes, Liu, Zhang et al. · Frontiers in Oncology · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“ChatGPT (GPT-4) outperformed all other LLMs as well as medical physicists, on average.”
    2. Unchecked“The performance of ChatGPT (GPT-4) was further improved when prompted to explain first, then answer.”
  6. Medicine

    arXiv 2207.08143

    arXiv 2207.08143: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Based on an expert annotation of the generated CoTs, we found that InstructGPT can often read, reason and recall expert knowledge.”
    2. Unchecked“Last, by leveraging advances in prompt engineering (few-shot and ensemble methods), we demonstrated that GPT-3.5 not only yields calibrated predictive distributions, but also reaches the passing score on three datasets: MedQA-USMLE 60.2%, MedMCQA 62.7% and P…
    3. Unchecked“Open-source models are closing the gap: Llama-2 70B also passed the MedQA-USMLE with 62.5% accuracy.”
  7. Medicine

    arXiv 1909.11090

    arXiv 1909.11090: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet.”
    2. Unchecked“This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.”
  8. Medicine

    DOI 10.1016/j.imavis.2024.105347

    DOI 10.1016/j.imavis.2024.105347: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Ethical concerns, biases, lack of transparency, insufficient explainability, and limited trustworthiness are major challenges when using generative AI in assistive technologies, particularly in systems that impact people directly.”
  9. Medicine

    DOI 10.2196/71916

    DOI 10.2196/71916: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 were the most versatile models in the 5-stage clinical workflow, applied to 52% (29/56) and 71% (40/56) of the clinical subtasks, respectively, and they performed best in 29% (16/56) and 54% (30/56) of the clinical subtasks, respectively.”
    2. Unchecked“However, we did not find evidence of generalist clinical LLMs successfully applicable to a wide range of clinical tasks.”
  10. Medicine

    arXiv 2011.10520

    arXiv 2011.10520: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“We show that SWD compares favorably to state-of-the-art approaches, in terms of performance-to-parameters ratio, on the CIFAR-10, Cora, and ImageNet ILSVRC2012 datasets.”
  11. Medicine

    arXiv 2310.05694

    arXiv 2310.05694: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“This shift encompasses a move from discriminative AI approaches to generative AI approaches, as well as a shift from model-centered methodologies to data-centered methodologies.”
    2. Unchecked“Also, we determine that the biggest obstacle of using LLMs in Healthcare are fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics.”
  12. Medicine

    arXiv 2306.08666

    arXiv 2306.08666: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Using an instruction tuning approach on an extensive dataset of radiology domain knowledge, Radiology-GPT demonstrates superior performance compared to general language models such as StableLM, Dolly and LLaMA.”

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