Author response to: Comment on: Will collaborative publishing with ChatGPT drive academic writing in the future?

Published Date: 13th September 2023

Publication Authors: Iyengar. KP

Purpose
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to aid in summarizing information in medicine and research has recently garnered a huge amount of interest. While tools such as ChatGPT produce convincing and naturally sounding output, the answers are sometimes incorrect. Some of these drawbacks, it is hoped, can be avoided by using programmes trained for a more specific scope. In this study we compared the performance of a new AI tool (the-literature.com) to the latest version OpenAI's ChatGPT (GPT-4) in summarizing topics that the authors have significantly contributed to.

Methods
The AI tools were asked to produce a literature review on 7 topics. These were selected based on the research topics that the authors were intimately familiar with and have contributed to through their own publications. The output produced by the AI tools were graded on a 1–5 Likert scale for accuracy, comprehensiveness, and relevance by two fellowship trained consultant radiologists.

Results
The-literature.com produced 3 excellent summaries, 3 very poor summaries not relevant to the prompt, and one summary, which was relevant but did not include all relevant papers. All of the summaries produced by GPT-4 were relevant, but fewer relevant papers were identified. The average Likert rating was for the-literature was 2.88 and 3.86 for GPT-4. There was good agreement between the ratings of both radiologists (ICC = 0.883).

Conclusion
Summaries produced by AI in its current state require careful human validation. GPT-4 on average provides higher quality summaries. Neither tool can reliably identify all relevant publications.

 

Ariyaratne, S; Iyengar, KP; Botchu, R. (2023). Author response to: Comment on: Will collaborative publishing with ChatGPT drive academic writing in the future?. BJS. 110(12), p.1894. [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znad295 [Accessed 19 April 2024]

 

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