Usual Interstitial Pathologist

  I gave a talk on AI/ LLM (aka ChatGPT and its cousins) in medical education at the UMEDS section of the Association of Pathology Chairs meeting July 17, 2023.  https://www.apcprods.org/apc2023 Some highlights. With respect to LLM, any literature from before 2022 is irrelevant. Forget the IBM Watson debacle. Generative LLM should be thought of in a different context than the various black box algorithms that predict patient outcome or classify images. I find those problematic as they distract from understanding the underlying biology. But LLM is different technology for different uses. With respect to education, there are two major categories of use cases. One is that the instructor can use LLM to generate an indefinitely large number of clinical scenarios and various questions for formative and summative learning exercises / tests. The system can generate harder or easier questions as needed. The material can be based on pasted in reference works or based on the LLM’s existi...