Healthcare Technology

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots showed mixed results when it came to providing treatment strategies and direct-to-patient cancer advice for a variety of malignancies, according to 2 studies recently published in JAMA Oncology.

Have you ever asked ChatGPT to create a bio on yourself? Was it spot-on? Somewhat accurate? Total fiction? ChatGPT and similar programs, such as Google’s Med-PaLM 2 and Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, are generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs that use large language models to respond to prompts.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical treatment options are on the rise and have the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, but a new study led by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers found that approximately 52% of participants would choose a human doctor rather than AI for diagnosis and treatment.