AI and Parkinson's

[blazyb]

A lot of people are scared about the impact of AI - I admit to concerns too. In the field of science and in Parkinson's there are already signs that AI is going to massively help speed up the ability of science to study and search for help for us so in this field I am very keen AI advances (with the right checks and balances of course). fightingparkinsonss.com/202...

[Boscoejean]

I hope you can slow or stop progression. Repurposing drugs may provide some help but drugs often come with a host of side effects. I think that there is a concern that new treatments may not be covered by insurance due to cost and that insurance may become unavailable to a large per cent of the population if one does not live in a country that has some type of universal coverage. That said cost of the medication or treatment may mean that it may not be provided in countries that do have that type of coverage.

[Despe in reply to Boscoejean]

Your comment is irrelevant.

[park_bear]

The most important thing to know about AI is that the large language model chatbots that we refer to as AI are actually quite stupid. They do not model reality and have no reasoning power. All they do is find likely combinations of words. They are best avoided entirely but if you are tempted to use one you must check the results. We have a case on this very website where someone used it for research. The AI failed to realize that the phrase "is unlikely", appended to the conclusion, negated it.

I have collected various AI failures here: healthunlocked.com/cure-par...

[michelagvolpe in reply to park_bear]

yesterday i asked to Elon Mask's AI (Grok) the zodiac sign of a person who was born on October 23rd, it answered libra.

I told it that it is scorpio and it apologized ah ah ah: errare humanum est! So is AI human? 🤔

[dan1000]

If anyone would like to explore an AI that has been specifically trained to help people with Parkinson's Disease better-understand their options, please give ParkiBot.com a try. And if you would like to see it improved in some particular way, please let me know, since I am the programmer (also a PwP) behind it.

It can be hard to find AI answers that understand the difference between research in the lab on animals, and clinical trials in humans. ParkiBot is quite careful in this regard. I hope you find it useful. And if it disappoints you, please let me know about that too.

Like all things, it is a work in progress. It is significantly better this month than last month, for example, due to availability of higher levels of reasoning ability in newly released language models from Google and OpenAI.

Thanks for the opportunity to provide this free AI service to the Parkinson's Community.

Dan Freedman

[Charaf1959 in reply to dan1000]

Merci pour l'effort et la pensée Il s'agit maintenant de voir l'efficacité.

[EmsXen33 in reply to dan1000]

Thank you for this excellent resource!

[Ctime in reply to dan1000]

Thanks for this resource, I will try some of the queries that I had done in Anthropic AI and see how they compare.

[Boscoejean in reply to dan1000]

I just gave it a try and I found the info I was looking for so it seems to be quite up to date

[7springshollow]

I'm not usually a technology fan but I am excited to see what AI can do for the search for a cure.