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LLMs and Generative AI for Healthcare
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LLMs and Generative AI for Healthcare

by Kerrie Holley, Manish Mathur
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
222 pages
7h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 7. Objects Are Closer Than They Appear

The future of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI in healthcare is akin to objects in the rearview mirror being closer than they appear. The pace of development in AI for healthcare is accelerating, and we are on the brink of transformative changes that will bring about advancements in patient care, medical practices, and healthcare at large. This chapter provides a glimpse of the potential of LLMs and generative AI for the healthcare sector. Let’s start with discussing a preview of the potential of both infinite prompts and agentic reasoning.

Future Prospects and Challenges in LLMs

The path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) has been long and winding in the pioneering days of machine learning progress marked by foundational concepts, experimental algorithms, and limited computing capabilities. Mid-20th-century luminaries laid the groundwork for what would someday become a transformative technology. The emergence of transformers, LLMs, and generative AI recently led many to believe we stand at the precipice of something profound. The research and advances in LLMs continues with recent thinking and research around infinite prompts and agentic reasoning, which we introduced in Chapter 1. Let’s explore both in a bit more detail and consider their potential for healthcare.

Infinite Prompts

The ability to handle infinite prompts could offer some unique advantages in healthcare, such as: contextual history, longitudinal ...

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