AI for Integrative Medicine (2)：Immediate Reaction to “Research in the Era of AI” on Real World Data (RWD)

Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research and Incubations, discussed how recent developments in AI have transformed the way Microsoft approaches research in the Keynote: “Research in the Era of AI” two days ago.

From around 19:25 of this video onward, Lee spent less than half a minute mentioning applications of envisioning generative AI on (conventional Western) medicine. That forced me to think: The technological changes, if not embraced timely by the field of Integrative Medicine, especially natural medicine such as traditional Chinese medicine and other energy medicine practitioners, would create a greater disparity in the already relatively weak trust and reputation of so-called “alternative medicine” given lack of centralized or even sporadic quality data from which all giants with competing large language models (LLMs) are getting their source. Or perhaps the same players competing for their small language models (SLMs, see Phi-2 in the reference) soon? :) As of the time when I jot down my reaction here, Dr. chatbots will give most people answers that Chinese medicine has no proven evidence for anything due to the lack of quality data they were, are, and will be fed in. Those clinicians who have the data are not even in the loop for the changes, how can they have the real data other than their own patients and themselves?