Summarizing, Simplifying, and Synthesizing Medical Evidence using GPT-3 (with Varying Success)

Chantal Shaib, Millicent Li, Sebastian Antony Joseph, Iain James Marshall, Junyi Jessy Li, Byron Wallace · 2023

evidence reported across a collection of articles. We design an annotation scheme for evaluating model outputs, with an emphasis on assessing the factual accuracy of generated summaries. We find that while GPT-3 is able to summarize and simplify single biomedical articles faithfully, it struggles to provide accurate aggregations of findings over multiple documents. We release all data and annotations used in this work.

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