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Sep 8, 2023

ChatGPT Makes OK Clinical Decisions—Usually

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

But don’t think about replacing your doctor with a chatbot now, or ever.

Could ChatGPT someday assist doctors in diagnosing patients? It might one day be possible. In a recent study, researchers fed ChatGPT information from fictional patients found in a online medical reference manual to find out how well the chatbot could make clinical decisions such as diagnosing patients and prescribing treatments. The researchers found that ChatGPT was 72 percent accurate in its decisions, although the bot was better at some kinds of clinical tasks than others. It also showed no evidence of bias based on age or gender. Though the study was small and did not use real patient data, the findings point to the… More.

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