What Is the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Laboratory Testing?
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In this program:
Medical laboratory science is now using artificial intelligence (AI) in some testing, but what is the impact? Medical laboratory scientist Dr. Brandy Gunsolus explains some ways laboratory companies are using AI in diagnostic testing and issues a warning about ChatGPT information.
Transcript
Ariqa Everett:
So artificial intelligence seems to be taking over everything. Can you speak to how artificial intelligence can impact laboratory testing?
Dr. Brandy Gunsolus:
So artificial intelligence has made a huge impact in laboratory testing. Well, there's some things that you do need to understand. So while you can use ChatGPT to make an advertisement or a picture or things like that, it's not what we really use as far as artificial intelligence for medical laboratory science. What companies are using, laboratory companies are using now with artificial intelligence or AI is they have taken an AI platform. They have essentially shielded it from the rest of the Internet out there and have trained that AI to hone in on patterns. And these patterns can be where they're looking at pap smears, looking for specific, really teeny tiny details and changes in cells looking for cancer.
It can be in molecular genetics where they're looking for specific little single point changes in the genetics of a person to identify a condition or even identify what the cause is for a condition that we think is genetic, but haven't exactly found the actual gene that causes it yet. So there's lots of things that we can do with AI, and it is really transforming the industry. One thing that I would caution though is for the public, if you're going to use an AI platform like ChatGPT realize that ChatGPT is basically crowdsourcing all of the information that's on the Internet. To give you an answer, problem is about a third of what's out there on the Internet is just misinformation. It is incorrect science. And so you could actually be getting some incorrect information if you're trying to make a healthcare decision based off these apps that are very readily and freely available on whether it's the Google Play store or the App Store. So just be very careful when you're using them just as the general public. But we do have some very interesting and beneficial things that are going on with artificial intelligence in laboratories right now.
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