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Eric Topol

@erictopol
37 posts
2026-03-05
🆕 at @naturemedicine.bsky.social  —  How does ChatGPT Health do for appropriately triaging a person as to whether to go to the emergency room or stay home? www.nature.com/articles/s41...  Not very well.  Under-triaged 52% of case vignettes that are considered gold-standard emergencies [image]
2026-03-05 View on X
NBC News

Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity of nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time

Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot.  In more than half of cases where doctors would send a patient to the ER …

2026-01-27
The performance of the newly released ChatGPT Health, via a thorough assessment by @geoffreyfowler with his health data, is very disappointing gift link https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]
2026-01-27 View on X
Washington Post

A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses

ChatGPT now says it can answer personal questions about your health using data from your fitness tracker and medical records.

2026-01-13
A few days ago it was @OpenAI, now @Anthropic. The others soon. The push into healthcare https://www.anthropic.com/...
2026-01-13 View on X
Business Insider

Anthropic debuts Claude for Healthcare, which offers HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, building on its Claude for Life Sciences offering

2026-01-12
A few days ago it was @OpenAI, now @Anthropic. The others soon. The push into healthcare https://www.anthropic.com/...
2026-01-12 View on X
Business Insider

Anthropic debuts Claude for Healthcare, which offers HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, building on its Claude for Life Sciences offering

- Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare to expand AI use in regulated medical industries.  — Claude for Healthcare offers HIPAA-ready tools …

2026-01-05
A.I. detecting early pancreatic cancer in China, based on @NatureMedicine validation publication “I think you can 100% say AI saved their lives.” gift link https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2026-01-05 View on X
New York Times

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine's tough problems.

2025-09-18
The first large language health model that predicts >1,000 diseases and the time they will occur in a person was just published @Nature, by @MoritzGerstung @artem_shmatko and colleagues https://www.nature.com/... This, along with other recent groundbreaking reports, represents the [image]
2025-09-18 View on X
Financial Times

Scientists detail Delphi-2M, a generative AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to 1,000+ diseases decades from now

meet Delphi-2M Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : New AI Predicts Over 1,000 Diseases Decades in Advance Using Health Records James Gallagher / BBC : AI can forecast your future he...

2025-08-13
Does A.I. support of physicians lead to their deskilling?  —  A new report of gastroenterologists doing colonoscopy for polyp detection, with and without A.I., raises the possibility www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...  [image]
2025-08-13 View on X
MedPage Today

Study: endoscopists accustomed to using AI during colonoscopies detected fewer precancerous growths after the tech was taken away, raising “deskilling” concerns

- The adenoma detection rate (ADR) in more than 1,400 non-AI assisted colonoscopies dropped 6 percentage points …

2025-07-20
Smartphone alerts of preshake warnings for 2.5 billion people in 98 countries countries over the past 3 years  —  @science.org  —  science.org/doi/10.1126/...  [image]
2025-07-20 View on X
Washington Post

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice

and send alerts Marc Stogaitis / Google Research : Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning Stuti Mishra / The Independent : Smartphones could help detect earth...

2025-07-19
Smartphone alerts of preshake warnings for 2.5 billion people in 98 countries countries over the past 3 years  —  @science.org  —  science.org/doi/10.1126/...  [image]
2025-07-19 View on X
Washington Post

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice

An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 …

2025-03-23
“In labs around the world, scientists are using A.I. to search among existing medicines for treatments that work for rare diseases.” And saving some lives. @DavidFajgenbaum https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2025-03-23 View on X
New York Times

Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options

Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Bluesky: @rjcc , @karissabe , @noc...

2024-12-15
What happens when LLMs run out of data to ingest? https://www.nature.com/... @nature feature by @nicolakimjones [image]
2024-12-15 View on X
Nature

AI companies, running out of conventional training datasets from the web, may be forced to shift from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models

why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI co-founder says AI is reaching “peak data” as it hits the limits of the internet K...

2024-09-25
Is #AI snake oil? Some of it is, as asserted by @random_walker and @sayashk in a new book published today @PrincetonUPress. It's the subject of a new Ground Truths podcast, with transcript and links to key papers. Open-access, no ads. link in profile [image]
2024-09-25 View on X
Wired

An interview with Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor on their new book AI Snake Oil, which is based on their popular newsletter about AI's shortcomings

A New Book by 2 Princeton University Computer Scientists X: Eric Topol / @erictopol : Is #AI snake oil? Some of it is, as asserted by @random_walker and @sayashk in a new book publ...

2024-09-03
The #AI drug discovery revolution But no, it's “not coming to a pharmacy near you” anytime soon Good piece by @DhruvKhullar w/ @SchreiberStuart @ItsJonStokes @AIHealthMIT https://www.newyorker.com/... [image]
2024-09-03 View on X
New Yorker

The use of AI techniques has accelerated and improved drug discovery efforts, as antibiotic-resistant infections contribute to 1.5M deaths annually

The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you.  —  When I first became a doctor, I cared for an older man whom I'll call Ted. X: @erictopol X: Eric Topol / @erictopol : The ...

2024-05-09
AlphaFold 2 was the most significant advance for #AI in life science (predicting structure of proteins) to date. Today @nature there's AlphaFold 3 for DNA, RNA, small molecules, ions, and their interactions (spike of coronavirus below) https://www.nature.com/... [image]
2024-05-09 View on X
Financial Times

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods

DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software … Glyn Moody / @glynmoody@mastodon.social : AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's...

2023-09-14
Just published @Nature 1st major large language model in medicine Self-supervised #AI of 2 million retina images to predict many diseases beyond the eye, such as heart attack, stroke, heart failure, Parkinson's disease https://www.nature.com/... led by @pearsekeane @Yukunzhou19 [image]
2023-09-14 View on X
Nature

Researchers develop RETFound, an AI tool capable of predicting the risk of ocular diseases, heart failure, Parkinson's disease, and more based on retinal images

I'm learning so much every day.🙏🏻 👁 RETFound is the 1st open-source foundation model for retinal imaging—diagnosing eye diseases... Eric Topol / @erictopol : Just published @Nature...

2023-07-10
Pushing forward with generative A.I. at Mayo Clinic with Google's large language model (Med-PaLM2) https://wsj.com/artic... (with uncertainties, a “work in progress") https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
2023-07-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources say testing began in April 2023 with the Mayo Clinic and others

Breaking: Foxconn walks away from a $19.5B joint venture with conglomerate Vedanta to produce semiconductors. Steve Dent / Engadget : Google is testing its medical AI chatbot at th...

2023-06-11
Was the science paper written by a scientist or a LLM? https://www.cell.com/... [image]
2023-06-11 View on X
Gizmodo

Researchers claim their model can detect academic writing from ChatGPT with 99%+ accuracy at the document level and 92% accuracy at the paragraph level

Researchers say their algorithm can detect scientific writing by robots with surprising accuracy.  —  Scientists from the University …

2023-05-02
New @NatureNeuro Reconstructing language from fMRI scans, a significant advance in brain-computer interface. And the need “to enact policies that protect each person's mental privacy.” [Used GPT-1] https://www.nature.com/... @jerryptang @alex_ander @AmandaLeBel3 @shaileeejain https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-02 View on X
VICE

Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from human subjects, a breakthrough in reading people's thoughts

mostly Paulo Montenegro / Ubergizmo : Mind-Reading Technology?! AI Helps To Translante fMRI Brain Scans Into Words Shelly Fan / Singularity Hub : This Brain Activity Decoder Transl...

2023-02-08
The term “generative #AI” may be appropriate since #ChatGPT and LLMs are generating a helluva lot of biomedical articles 😉 https://www.nature.com/... @stokel @Richvn @Nature https://www.thelancet.com/... @KyleLam93 @LancetDigitalH https://www.thelancet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-08 View on X
Nature

Science researchers are excited about AI chatbots like ChatGPT but apprehensive about their propensity to produce errors and misleading info on technical topics

2023-01-30
Using large language models like #ChatGPT for life science: making proteins from scratch via ProGen https://www.nature.com/... @NatureBiotech @salesforce @thisismadani @nikhil_ai and colleagues @SFResearch https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-30 View on X
New Scientist

Researchers detail how ProGen, an LLM trained on 280M proteins, designed proteins with anti-microbial properties that were tested in real life and shown to work