A Year In AI: The Most Important 2023 Milestones For Medicine

2023 was the year of artificial intelligence in our medical futuristic world. Although we‘ve been predicting for years that AI will transform healthcare, this revolution, which felt like a vague promise for years, suddenly became a reality. And this was not brought by a groundbreaking new technology. To determine why generative AI became such a big hit in the past year, we need to look for the explanation around public access. After all, AI (and AI in medicine) isn’t exactly new. Nobody cared for more than a decade and now, boom, suddenly everyone is interested. ChatGPT has arrived In November 2022, OpenAI publicly launched its large language model ChatGPT. It reached the milestone of having over 100 million users in only 2 months, and it became the fastest-growing consumer application ever. In less than a year, it has over 100 million users per week, and millions of developers are building on its API.  ChatGPT was the first widely available solution for interacting with AI and it has changed everything. Artificial intelligence, the mystic tool available only to a select few, became an everyday tool for anyone – overnight. Soon, everyone started speculating about the potential medical use cases, and how these tools could assist us in building a medical praxis.  We, of course, also offered our two cents on what’s coming next and medical journals started to publish the first studies analysing potential clinical applications. By the time we go...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI Healthcare Source Type: blogs