It’s time for digital co-pilots, and it includes the medical industry

During a demonstration at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Redmond, Washington, the company had a demo in which you can see some medical professionals present. After asking for the consent of the ‘patient’, Dr. Douglas Kauffman recorded the remote medical appointment that they had and within seconds of finishing it, the AI ​​system summarized what they discussed and gave specialized information about the possible conditions that could exist .

Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express is a fully automated clinical documentation application integrated into doctors’ workflow that will be available in the United States starting in summer 2023. Although this is the version powered by ChatGPT-4, Microsoft and Nuance launched the Dragon Medical One app, which is available in Mexico and 18 other countries and has a support focus as a prompter or assistant who takes notes.

Digital co-pilots, new avatars?

In addition to the DAX demo, Microsoft took advantage of the press tour to talk about the future of these virtual assistants, which they even called: the era of co-pilots. According to Dr. Walter Sun, vice president of AI, applications and business platform at Microsoft, these types of apps can already support thousands of people today.

“AI can already collaborate in real time with us, whether it’s doing repetitive tasks, helping to get them done on time for creativity, or increasing time for humans to do what they really like,” he said in a presentation of the new applications. that are currently used.

As an example, he spoke of Viva Sales with GPT Generation, a tool that allows you to summarize conversations, write emails, and even prioritize tasks or risks that some projects in an organization might have.

In addition to this tool, Sun talked about GitHub Copilot, a tool that is capable of generating code, according to certain instructions given by a programmer.

“The results indicate that 46% of the new code that is written is developed by AI, and we have also identified that 75% of developers feel more focused on creativity tasks within their work when using this tool.”

When asked about the future of this type of tools, Sun pointed out that co-pilots will be a new form of collaboration within companies.

Although in 2022 a large part of the industry was focused on the metaverse conversation, where avatars were discussed, these types of co-pilots are beginning to represent a kind of work avatar for various applications, since they are capable of assisting users who use them .

However, despite gaining popularity, the use of this type of generative AI has caused some countries in the world to seek to regulate applications such as ChatGPT, and even in Mexico they are beginning to talk about a possible regulation.