She spent the night uploading every test re-


sult, medical scan, and scrap of information on her son’s condition into OpenAI’s generative ar- tificial intelligence (AI) platform, ChatGPT. ChatGPT’s neural network came back with


a diagnosis totally different from any they’d re- ceived from the 17 doctors who’d seen Alex over the last three years. It said her son could be suffering from “teth-


ered spinal bifida,” a condition that occurs in fewer than one in 4,000 births. Unlike regular neural tube defects, the teth-


ered form leaves no obvious opening in the baby’s skin. That makes it much trickier to di- agnose than regular spinal bifida, and it often goes undetected. Courtney could tell right away this was bad


news because the spinal cord of tethered spinal bifida sufferers is bound up with other tissues. As a child grows, the restriction pulls on the


spinal cord, causing intense pain and loss of function. Normal development for a child who goes untreated is virtually impossible. Desperate to save her son, Courtney found


a Facebook group for parents of children with the disease. And right away she saw the symp- toms reported by other parents sounded simi- lar to her son’s. Courtney took Alex to a specialist to review


his MRI. That neurologist took one look at the images and confirmed ChatGPT’s diagnosis. Courtney’s son had a tethered spinal cord. Thanks to AI, she’d finally found the cause. The story of how Courtney used AI to help


her son is just one datapoint, a tiny foreshadow- ing of an AI-driven healthcare revolution that’s now underway. Most experts expect it to have a profound, paradigm-shifting impact on virtually every


AI Can Hear What Ails You I


magine a world where you tell your doctor how


you’re feeling — and receive an immediate diagnosis based solely on the sound of your voice. Artificial intelligence (AI) is


demonstrating an impressive ability to discern your illness simply based on the tone and modulation of your voice. Learning models have


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Courtney took Alex to a specialist to review his MRI. That neurologist took one look at the images and confirmed ChatGPT’s diagnosis. Courtney’s son had a tethered spinal cord. Thanks to AI, she’d finally found the cause.


aspect of healthcare. From finding powerful new drugs main-


stream medicine overlooked, to lowering some costs, to spotting signs of trouble in MRIs and CAT scans that human eyes overlooked, to diag- nosing diseases, many believe AI is em- powering doctors’ ability to care for their patients like never before. Cardiologist Eric Topol,


author of the new bestselling book, The Patient Will See You Now, writes: “We are em- barking on a time when each


demonstrated an uncanny ability to provide an early diagnosis of certain disorders solely by analyzing a patient’s speech patterns. That’s especially the case for neurological problems like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Some experts on the medical


frontier say the technology could also be used to diagnose


certain heart ailments. Medical experts say AI could open up a whole new path to early diagnosis because each person’s voice is as unique as their fingerprint. In one 2024 study, for


example, researchers in Luxembourg used AI to analyze


recordings of over 600 individuals. AI correctly identified about 70% of those with Type 2 diabetes by analyzing their speech patterns, suggesting doctors may one day diagnose diseases simply by asking patients to record and submit a voice sample. — D.P.


HEALTH REVOLUTION IS HERE


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