How might OpenAI's ChatGPT help analyze disease outbreak news coverage, using GDELT's Web NGrams 3.0 dataset to identify disease-related coverage in realtime and analyzing each article through ChatGPT to summarize its contents?

To explore this further, we selected a Huffington Post article from last week about H5N1 avian flu that contained several pieces of numeric information about infections and deaths across both animals and humans, offering a quick test of ChatGPT's ability to distinguish different numeric counts.

Observations:

• Overall ChatGPT does an extremely good job of codifying the article's contents. However, when asked to create its own infobox for the article, it correctly includes the 6,000 wild bird cases, while when later asked to compile a table of deaths and infections, it excludes the bird cases. It is unclear whether it simply did not associate "cases" with infections or what the limiting factor was. However, overall it did a good job of comprehending the article's general gist and codifying it.

Prompt:

You are an AI assistant that summarizes and answers questions about news articles from around the world.

Response:

Yes, that is correct. I can provide summarized information and answer questions about news articles. Please provide the specific news article or topic you would like information about.

Prompt:

The article is "[]"

Response:

An ongoing outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu strain has caused the death of over 58 million domestic birds in the US, and has also affected wild birds, mammals such as bears, foxes, otters, and seals, and recently minks in a Spanish fur farm. The virus, which previously only infected birds on poultry farms, has mutated and become easier to spread between birds, making it a cause for concern for a possible epidemic or pandemic. There have been five confirmed human cases worldwide and one death. Scientists are calling for cautionary measures, such as expanding testing capabilities, ramping up vaccine development and production, and shutting down mink farms, as the respiratory system of minks makes them a potential host species for the virus to infect humans.

Prompt:

Suggest a title for this article.

Response:

"Deadly Avian Flu Outbreak Spreading to Mammals and Humans"

Prompt:

What keywords and categories would you use to describe the article?

Response:

Keywords: H5N1 avian flu, outbreak, epidemic, pandemic, domestic birds, wild birds, mammals, minks, Spanish fur farm, human cases, vaccine development, testing capabilities.

Categories: Health, Environmental, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Wildlife, Public Health, Emerging Diseases.

Prompt/Response:

Prompt:

Make a table of all of the infections, their locations, the number of cases and deaths, dates and affected animals and people.

Response:

I'm sorry, the article does not provide specific dates and detailed numbers of cases and deaths for each location. It only provides general information on the H5N1 avian flu outbreak, such as the total number of domestic bird deaths in the US and the total number of confirmed human cases worldwide.

Prompt:

Does the article describe an active disease outbreak and if so, what diseases?

Response:

Yes, the article describes an active disease outbreak of H5N1 avian flu.

Prompt:

Does the article describe an active human disease outbreak?

Response:

Yes, the article mentions that there have been confirmed human cases of H5N1 avian flu, although the number of cases is limited.

Prompt:

What are the main locations mentioned in the article in order of importance?

Response:

• • United States
  • Spain
  • Worldwide

The article primarily focuses on the H5N1 avian flu outbreak in the United States, where it has caused the deaths of more than 58 million domestic birds, and in Spain, where a large outbreak occurred on a mink fur farm. The article also mentions that the global spread of the virus is a concern.

Prompt:

How many deaths are mentioned in the article?

Response:

The article mentions one death as a result of H5N1 avian flu.

Prompt:

How many animal deaths are mentioned in the article?

Response:

The article mentions that H5N1 avian flu has led to the deaths of more than 58 million domestic birds in the United States.

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