RESEARCH SOURCE (An A.I. designed to guide humans through the end of life is already among us) (Andrew Zaleski) https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/13/an-artificial-intelligence-created-for-the-end-of-life-is-already-here.html
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- “Chatbots are used for a variety of tasks: ordering pizza, getting product suggestions via Facebook Messenger and receiving online customer support. But can they cope with death?”
- “A three-year clinical study with financial backing of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health is exploring whether a chatbot can help terminally ill, geriatric patients with their end-of-life care.”
- “the chatbot — which takes the form of a middle-age female digital character — is preloaded with a number of capabilities. These include clinical ones — such as gauging a patient's level of pain and keeping tabs on whether medication is being taken — as well as ones to improve a patient's quality of life.”
- “Now in year two of a five-year project that began in 2016, the chatbot project has received $1.3 million, with more funding contingent on the success of the clinical trial that began this year.”
- “ They tested the chatbot with 44 people age 55 and older, specifically around topics related to preparation for death and spiritual counseling. What they found was that after speaking to the chatbot in a 30-minute conversation, most participants had a significant decrease in anxiety around thinking about death, even those who identified as atheist or not overly religious.”
- With a chatbot the stakes are lower — patients might be more inclined to share their symptoms or ask questions they might not ask a doctor. By cataloging and keeping track of those responses, the chatbot in turn makes it easier for doctors, nurses and family caregivers to better coordinate their responses, ensuring the right health care is delivered at the right time.
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TITLE OF BLOG POST: Will AI ( Artificial Intelligence) be good or bad for society as a whole in the future.
INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: Should contain the following 3 components: (1) Opening lead sentence to get audience’s attention. (2) Who/what is the source & why is it reliable (3) Your blog post’s thesis which connects your research question, to the economic principle and what you learned from this research source. People who are nearing the end of their lives may not be inclined to share information about their health or other social emotional problems. And this recent article done by CNBC by Andrew Zaleski goes into how how researchers and doctors are having some patients use a AI technology that allows them to have conversations with a “chatbot”. The chatbot asks various questions about the patient's well being that a doctor may not ask or the patient may not have been comfortable answering that same question to a doctor. This use of AI technology is helping doctors understand their patient's condition. AI in this case is changing the way these doctors do their day to day jobs and it’s helping them understand their patients even more.
2-3 SMALL BODY PARAGRAPHS (Organizes and analyzes evidence from the source about author’s argument). See ideas for organizing your blog post here. Break writing into easy to read paragraphs, format font to make it easier to follow main ideas, etc.) A recent study with funding from the National Institutes of Health with a total backing of 1 million dollars is to put chatbots into effect with people who are terminally ill. A regular chatbot is used for messages you may see on facebook about a recent product you may have looked at or simply ordering pizza. The idea may seem ludicrous, and you're probably wondering how a simple chatbot could help terminally ill people near the end of their lives. The chatbot in this instance is taking of a task that a nurse would do. The bot is keeping check on the patient's medication dosage, usage and asking simple questions regarding the well-being of that person. Although one could argue that this implementation of AI could potentially remove thousands of nursing jobs if this usage of AI technology works well. The doctors and researchers found that over time the patients told the AI things about their overall health and well being as well as other symptoms that the doctors and nurses couldn’t get out of the patients before. The results and the way those results came were not expected and the researchers did not expect the patients to be more forthcoming to the AI than the actual people working at the hospital. This research is providing evidence that AI has the potential to bring emotions and information out of people that actual human beings themselves could not get out of that very same ill person. The capabilities of AI extend further than information collection and processing.
