Thank you
@rvallee for this thread. As many of you know, I have been looking at various AI technologies for quite some time. The first AI-generated hypothesis on the origin of ME/CFS and other syndromes has been generated in 2015. This was sent it to a number of ME/CFS researchers in December 2015 (why I write about this will become clear later on). Also I am in remission since 2015 (which was also explained in the email I sent to researchers).
1) To this day, despite the rise of AI tools there is no single tool that looks at medical syndromes. Chat GPT and Google Bard are useless when specific questions are being posed to them regarding ME/CFS and LongCOVID.
2) Since these tools are/will be disruptors , expect many difficulties when it comes to their use from researchers. Imagine, that you have a tool that will be able to tell the most likely cause(s) of ME/CFS and where to put your time (and money) at.
3) Then we have "research silos" . An immunologist will be looking for immune related causes. Other researchers will be looking at metabolites. Another researcher believes that the solution lies in the vagus nerve. We need to unify these silos and to do so, I find no better way than using AI tools to guide this unification.
I find it extremely dissapointing and frustrating that ever since 2015 I have been trying to convince researchers and patient organisations to use AI technology to speed up research process. Eight years and counting.