AI Model GPT-3 May Predict Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

A new peer-reviewed study published in PLOS Digital Health demonstrates how OpenAI's GPT-3 program predicts early stages of dementia from spontaneous speech with a high degree of accuracy. "To our knowledge, this is the first application of GPT-3 to predicting dementia from speech," wrote professor Hualou Liang, Ph.D., and co-author Felix Agbavor at Drexel's School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative disease that affects an estimated 47 million people worldwide, according to the Alzheimer's Association. By 2030 this figure is expected to grow to 76 million globally, according to the same source. There are 5.8 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease, of which two-thirds are women, according to a report by AARP and the Women's Alzheimer's Movement (WAM).