Technology & AI

Canada-based registered nurse and navigator, Corrine Humby shares how visiting the Exhibit Hall at the 2018 AONN+ Annual Conference allowed her to learn about new products and services, giving her a few more tools to use and resources that she can share with her patients back home.

A simple explanation of artificial intelligence is the discipline of making machines that can think like humans. It is a “smart” technology that can process large amounts of data, such as numbers, algorithms, and other input, to recognize patterns and use real-time data to make decisions like humans. Unlike humans, it has the capacity to process significant amounts of data, but what it cannot replace currently is the emotional depth, intuition, and unpredictability of human creativity.

Where do we really stand when it comes to artificial intelligence? What is the value? Who is using it? What are the risks and drawbacks? This technology has been discussed as a solution to complicated medical management as long ago as the 1970s, in the early days of developing clinical decision support systems.

Have you ever asked ChatGPT to create a bio on yourself? Was it spot-on? Somewhat accurate? Total fiction? ChatGPT and similar programs, such as Google’s Med-PaLM 2 and Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, are generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs that use large language models to respond to prompts.

Dr. Enrique Velazquez Villarreal, Assistant Professor in Department of Integrative Translational Sciences at City of Hope, discusses how his innovative AI tool, AI-HOPE, is revolutionizing cancer care by combining clinical data, genomics, and social determinants of health to enhance personalized treatments and patient outcomes.