Opinion: Promises — and pitfalls — of ChatGPT-assisted medicine

Not long after the artificial intelligence company OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot, the application went viral. Five days after its release, it had garnered 1 million users. Since then, it has been called world-changing, a tipping point for artificial intelligence, and the beginning of a new technological revolution.

Like others, we began exploring potential medical applications for ChatGPT, which was trained on more than 570 gigabytes of online textual data, extracted from sources like books, web texts, Wikipedia, articles, and other content on the internet, including some focused on medicine and health care. Although the potential usage of AI such as ChatGPT for medical applications excites us, inaccuracies, confabulation, and bias make us hesitant to endorse its use outside of certain situations. These include streamlining education and administrative tasks to assisting clinical decision-making, though even there the application has significant problems and pitfalls.

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