Can Artificial Intelligence make medical research easier to understand?
This is a fascinating question that we grapple with daily as we navigate the reality of an AI-driven publishing landscape. We’ll have more to say on this subject in the future, but for now, we want to share an AI-generated output in the form of a podcast, completely created by artificial intelligence, including all voices, tonality, and content. Even the visual representations of the two podcasters aren’t real. These people don’t exist. Ponder the implication of that notion for a while.
A Bit of Background
This AI-generated content (we hesitate to call it a traditional “podcast”) was brought to our attention by one of Dr. Blevins’ patients, who discovered it in a Facebook patient group. The creator used a well-known AI platform to analyze one of Dr. Blevins’ recently published papers on PWN, translating the complex medical language into plain English with more accessible terms and less technical jargon. As you will hear, the platform generated a dialog. The goal was simply to better understand the content. You can read Dr. Blevins’ original paper, “The Evolution of Our Understanding of the Nuances of Pathologic Cortisol Secretion,” [here].
After carefully reviewing the AI-generated content for accuracy, Dr. Blevins found that the platform did an excellent job of simplifying the material and making the language more approachable for patients and general audiences. Following thorough consideration, we decided to publish it on PWN—and here it is!
We Want to Hear From You
What are your thoughts on AI-generated medical content? Does this approach help bridge the communication gap between complex research and patient understanding? Please share your opinions with us at info@pituitaryworldnews.com or comment on this article.
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Hi JD,
I’ve been a computer wonk for fifty years; a programmer, a security engineer, a privacy analyst; a Chief Information Security Officer; the acting privacy officer for a Fortune 100 company; in more recent years, a consultant on these issues.
And, a pituitary patient (GH-secreting macroadenoma, Acromegaly); and, of that, a rare case (my disease went into full remission due to a hemorrhage of the tumor, in 2019).
I say all this to give background to my comments, in terms of technology and AI, and its relevance to our medical self-care.
Don’t trust anything generated by AI. I could go looking and quickly find dozens of papers about the why; I leave that as an exercise to the reader.
*DO*, under the right conditions, *use* AI.
What you guys did – applied the technical experts to AI-generated content, found it adequate, and only then ‘trusted’ it – is the right way. It’s also expensive, which is exactly what too many “AI” “users” fail to understand — AI is a tool, a poorly understood one, a poorly regulated one, and one which is known to make terrible mistakes (as well as to be easily abused, despite whatever efforts the AI companies have made or have claimed to have made).
IFF you (we patients, and also doctors) choose to use AI, make sure to have a way to validate the outputs.
When I landed in hospital in 2019, with my brain swelling from the blood flowing up the pituitary stalk from the hemorrhage, all of my pituitary-controlled hormones tanked, I knew next-to-nothing about neuroendocrinology.
During the month that I spent in hospital recovering, I read thousands of pages of medical articles, used my network to contact professionals of whom to ask questions, and I continued on that journey in the years that followed.
Not everyone can do that. It’s not easy for most people to understand medical articles; although I haven’t had medical training, I am a trained engineer, and it’s remarkable how similar the way we have to think about things is.
If you can’t read the articles yourself, and if you do decide to use AI, bounce the results off of your trusted medical professionals, before taking actions based on what AI “thought” it “told” you.
Be careful out there.
Hello Jay,
Thank you so much for your comment and the valuable insight you bring to the discussion. Indeed, navigate this new landscape with caution!
This Podcast is very helpful. Thank you Dr. Blevins. I agree with you that modern medicine needs to re-think the dangers of any dysregulated cortisol secretion. I have had my right adrenal gland removed and a tumor removed off my left adrenal gland. I am still suffering with excess cortisol. My cortisol increases in the afternoon. I have a recent blood test with my ACTH @ 125 and my Cortisol @ 20. My feedback loop is dysfunctional. Please let all of us know what we can do as a community to get the AMA to update their guidelines.