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ChatGPT almost passes US Medical Licensing Exam
ChatGPT almost passes US Medical Licensing Exam
Plus: Turkish engineers develop technologies to aid earthquake victims.
Feb 10, 2023
ChatGPT is practically everywhere. Last week, we reported that a Colombian judge used the AI tool in preparing a ruling in a children's medical rights case. Now, ChatGPT has taken the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), a highly standardized and regulated series of exams required for medical licensure in the U.S.
To test ChatGPT’s performance on the exam, scientists removed image-based questions and proceeded to ask ChatGPT 350 of the 376 questions from the June 2022 USMLE release. The AI tool scored between 52.4 percent and 75.0 percent across the three USMLE exams. These scores bode particularly well, as the passing threshold each year is approximately 60 percent.
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It seems there is nothing that ChatGPT cannot do, even consulting judges in cases and boosting research.
Now, the AI chatbot has been found to score at or around approximately 60 percent, passing the threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) “with responses that make coherent, internal sense and contain frequent insights.”
The USMLE is a highly standardized and regulated series of three exams required for medical licensure in the United States. To see how the language mode would perform on this very complex exam, researchers tested ChatGPT’s performance on the test. They removed image-based questions and proceeded to ask ChatGPT 350 of the 376 public questions available from the June 2022 USMLE release.
ChatGPT scored between 52.4 percent and 75.0 percent across the three USMLE exams. These scores bode particularly well, as the passing threshold each year is approximately 60 percent.
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INNOVATION
As Turkey and Syria are still suffering from the consequences of the severe earthquakes that hit southern Turkey on Monday, people, charity organizations, corporations, and different countries have been working heartily to help all the earthquake victims.
Tech volunteers developed several practical applications to respond to the earthquake victims' cries for help during this period. From a map application that provides the location of safe areas to a Twitter stream application that shows tweets of those waiting for help under debris, here are some of the most prominent and beneficial ones.
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HEALTH
A man suffering from prostate cancer started sporting an Irish accent in what is one of the few documented reports of the condition and the first-ever associated with this type of cancer. Sadly, the man ultimately passed away from his disease.
The man was being treated for an ongoing case of metastatic prostate cancer when he suddenly began to speak with “an uncontrollable ‘Irish brogue’ accent despite no Irish background,” the researchers wrote in their report. They quickly diagnosed him with foreign accent syndrome (FAS).
In the case of the man suffering from prostate cancer, the doctors venture a guess that the man’s accent was actually caused by an underlying paraneoplastic neurological disorder. This is a condition when damage to the brain occurs as an immune response to cancer elsewhere in the body.
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SCIENCE
An experiment conducted under the supervision of Dr. Harold Katcher is providing humanity with a ray of hope for achieving the dream of reversing aging.
While serving his tenure at Yuvan Research Inc., he discovered the factor in young animals' blood that controlled the age of the organism. He tested it on eight female rats of the Sprague Dawley species. "Sima" is currently the only survivor of that group, but the age she reached has provided the scientist with a vision of human rejuvenation.
The results of the latest study of Dr. Ketcher will be penned down once Sima dies.
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MAIL & MUSINGS
AI-bot almost passes the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam.
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Following the news that Scientists believe moon dust could be used to protect the Earth from climate change, we asked if you think it could. 41 percent think it sounds unreasonable, while 34 percent consider it unrealistic.
41%
It could, but it sounds unreasonable
34%
No, that’s unrealistic
16%
Yes, sounds reasonable
9%
I have no idea
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.”
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