Viral-Artificial Intelligence-Zombie Information
Viral-Artificial Intelligence-Zombie Information. Sound frightening? It should. Let's consider each element of the hyphenated phrase in reverse order, using medical science as only one of many possible exemplars. Zombie medical information was decried in a recent Nature article (July 2023) entitled "Medicine’s problem with ‘zombie’ trials." The scary suggestion is that "... at least one-quarter, and perhaps up to one-third, of trials contain problematic data". Equally hair-raising is the authors' contention that such studies "...can be laundered into respectability when they are included in systematic reviews, which assess evidence across many studies and are often the basis for clinical guidelines." So, that's the Zombie element. What about the Artificial Intelligence element? Sticking with Nature, consider the 24 January 2023 paper entitled "Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use....