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In an interview, Karan Singhal, head of OpenAI's health division, proposed that AI healthcare should raise both the lower and upper limits of human health. He noted that more than 300 million people ask ChatGPT health-related questions every week, and that OpenAI chooses to incorporate medical data into each training stage of its general models rather than training a separate medical-specific model, so that the specialized model does not quickly fall behind frontier models. He also mentioned that OpenAI is exploring a proactive personal health assistant covering before, during, and after diagnosis, and said users' health information will not be used for model training or ad targeting. OpenAI is collaborating with Penda Health on an experiment with a clinician assistance system, and with medical information systems such as Epic to explore using ChatGPT directly within healthcare workers' existing work environments.
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OpenAI Health Lead on AI in Healthcare: General Models Plus Specialized Training as a Safety Net Beside Doctors
Karan Singhal, head of OpenAI's health division, said in an interview that more than 300 million people ask ChatGPT health-related questions every week, and that OpenAI chooses to incorporate medical data at each training stage of its general models rather than training a separate medical-specific model, to avoid the specialized model quickly falling behind frontier models. He mentioned that OpenAI is exploring a proactive personal health assistant covering before, during, and after consultations, and said users' health information will not be used for model training or ad targeting. OpenAI is also working with Penda Health to experiment with a clinician assistance system, and with medical information systems such as Epic to explore using ChatGPT directly within healthcare workers' existing work environments.