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Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now
Patients and doctors are turning to AI for diagnoses and treatment recommendations, often with stellar results, but problems arise when experts and algorithms disagree.
Harvard’s Rodman worked on this study and says when the research was conducted in 2023, AI chatbots were still relatively new, so doctors’ lack of familiarity with these tools may have lessened their ability to reach an accurate diagnosis. OpenAI says the program was built with the help of more than 260 physicians in 60 countries, and includes 5,000 simulated health conversations between users and AI models, with a scoring guide designed by doctors to evaluate the responses. “Our findings show that large language models have improved significantly over time and already outperform experts in writing responses to examples tested in our benchmark,” Open AI says on its website.
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