The Medical Writing Ghost of Christmas Future
Like the way the first ghost was telling us that we have gotten a little off course, our future is not to better AI, it is to better humanity. A better future for AI does not necessarily mean that humanity will benefit as well.
Proponents say that AI will eventually replace human writers. Some go as far as to state that AI is superior in its ability to collect data, to analyze, to perform pattern identification, and to extract output, all without any human intervention.1
The reality is that AI advances are bit by bit and implemented by humans, either improvements in algorithms or minor changes in techniques.2
Can AI help us to do a better job in medical writing? Perhaps, but if you consider that chatbots are not authors and as such cannot be responsible for writing essential content that is needed, then it’s a moot point.
Thanks for reading our version of A Medical Writing Christmas Carol. We wish all a Merry Christmas!
References:
- Parisis N. Medical writing in the era of artificial intelligence. Medical Writing. 2019;28(4).
- Heaven WD. Ai is learning how to create itself. MIT Technology Review. June 25, 2021. Accessed December 23, 2023. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/27/1025453/artificial-intelligence-learning-create-itself-agi/#:~:text=The%20truth%20is%20that%20for%20now%2C%20AGI%20remains,algorithms%2C%20yielding%20incremental%20leaps%20in%20performance%20or%20accuracy.
