Glass Health is a San Francisco-based company co-founded by Dereck Paul and Graham Ramsey. It began by offering an electronic system for keeping medical notes and is now among several companies hoping to use artificial intelligence chatbots (聊天机器人) to make a difference in medicine. These firms believe that their programs could significantly reduce the paperwork pressure physicians face daily, and improve the patient-doctor relationship. “We need these folks not in burnt-out states, trying to complete documentation,” Paul says.
Some independent researchers have expressed their fears of the rush to include the latest AI technology in medicine. “I think it’s very exciting, but anything that involves decision-making about a patient’s health should be treated with extreme care,” says Pearse Keane, a professor of artificial medical intelligence at University College London in the United Kingdom.
Paul says he is well aware of the problems and that doctors who use his company’s AI system need to check it. “You have to supervise (监督) it in the way you supervise medical students, which means that you can’t be lazy about it,” he says.
His company is now working to reduce the risk of errors. He believes the underlying technology can be turned into a powerful engine for medicine. Paul and his coworkers have created. a program called “Glass AI” based on ChatGPT. A doctor tells the Glass AI chatbot about a patient, and it can suggest a list of possible diagnoses (诊断) and a treatment plan. Rather than working from the raw ChatGPT information base, the Glass AI system uses a virtual medical textbook written by human doctors as its main source of facts-something Paul says makes the system safer and more reliable.
Last December, his company had around 500 users. But after they introduced their chatbot, the numbers jumped. “We finished January with 2, 000 monthly active users, and in February we had 4800,” Paul says. Thousands more signed up in March, as overworked doctors lined up to give AI a try.
【小题1】What could Glass Health’s present program do?| A．Boost patients’ mental health. |
| B．Update hospitals’ medical records. |
| C．Help reduce errors in doctors’ treatment. |
| D．Relieve doctors pressure of handling paperwork. |
| A．Objective. | B．Supportive. | C．Worried. | D．Opposed. |
| A．By operating the system based on doctors’ advice. |
| B．By employing medical students to use the system. |
| C．By training chatbots to select correct raw ChatGPT information. |
| D．By drawing on human wisdom as the basis for medical practices. |
| A．Glass Health has vast market potential. |
| B．Doctors will be free from paperwork soon. |
| C．Glass Health has an unstable number of users. |
| D．Doctors need a balance between life and work. |
