How AI Has Greatly Helped Me Understand AMA CPT “APPENDIX S” For AI
All year, and even right now, I’m getting huge benefits by
using AI to understand what is happening.
1. COPY COMPARE. Chat GPT has done an outstanding job of
comparing revision versions, and offering reasonable summaries of the results
and perceived authors’ goals.
2. CLEAN COPY. The versions are so massively marked-up I find
them almost unreadable. Just by asking,
Chat GPT was able to give me a clean copy with all the generations of changes accepted. Far easier to read.
3. LOGIC TREE. At an April 16 workshop, AMA said it may try at some point to make a “logic tree’ or “flow chart” for software code classification. I asked Chat GPT to try to do so, today, and
in a couple minutes it gave me the results, including where a logic tree is
possible and where it fails. Knowing
that could help edit the document. Timeline: 5 minutes instead of several months.
4. BETA TESTING. Also on April 16, AMA said that later in the year, it may try to “fire
test” or “beta test” whether the new Appendix S leads to consistent and clear
classifications. (But see point 3). Chat GPT volunteered to find 10 or more use
cases (it found many on Category IiI rosters) and try to fit them into the
Appendix S template. Result: Sometimes
worked, sometimes failed, and explained how and why. Timeline: 5 minutes instead of several months.
5. DEALING WITH CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS. The appendix doesn’t define
AI or ML and it’s not always clear what services should be brought into and
through Appendix S and which not. Chat GPT
offered possible remedies with model text.
6. REWRITING THE
WHOLE DAMN THING. I asked it to rewrite
a new Appendix S, not by redlineing the 2022/23 version, but starting from a white
page. It did so, and took various
individual paragraphs through extra versions at my guidance. Timeline; 5 minutes instead of 6 hours by hand.
In short, there were myriad ways that AI itself was
super-helpful on the Appendix S journey.
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Appendix S as-is
2025 Revisions article by AMA panelist/author
App S anew.
