'We Are Not Waiting To Be Replaced': Medical Affairs Pros Take On GPT-4o

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Faster, more powerful and able to handle voices and visual images, newly released AI platform GPT-4o could potentially accelerate many tasks currently handled by pharma firms' medical affairs professionals, who are exploring ways to keep themselves relevant while embracing the unprecedented technology, DIA China hears.

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Medical affairs pros are already taking on GPT-4o, speakers at DIA China say • Source: Shutterstock

Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH is one of many pharma companies experimenting with new ways to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to innovate their ways of distributing information and communicating with patients.

A frontrunner among such firms looking to adopt AI, augmented reality and new digital media tools, it has already identified...

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