How pharmacy education should use generative AI

Abstract

GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a type of generative AI that uses machine learning, a core technology of artificial intelligence (AI), and is one of the language models that represent deep learning models in natural language processing (NLP), a series of technologies for processing natural language on computers. Generative AI powered by GPT is developing rapidly. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has also issued guidelines on the educational use of generative AI at universities and technical colleges, calling for the use of generative AI with appropriate literacy, such as responding to hallucinations where generative AI outputs information that differs from the facts. With this background, it is expected that the use of generative AI will increase in pharmaceutical education in the future. This paper summarizes the results of a survey on how universities with pharmaceutical schools are responding to AI and discusses how pharmaceutical education should utilize generative AI.