While I think you can get ChatGPT to be racist if you work at it, I’ve been toying with it in terms of the validity of its medical information and it’s pretty damn good.
I can ask extremely complex questions and then follow those up with clarifying questions and it’s consistently been accurate. I’m by no means using it to practice medicine and for the love of god nobody should be going to it for medical advice.
But it’s obvious this is going to be used in hospitals within the next 5 years. They just have to sanitize the information being put out and ensure it can only pull from reliable sources.
It’s really crazy how good it is at explaining complex topics. It’s helped me understand medical concepts that were confusing to me (I’d ask it to explain something better so I can understand it and then I’d verify what it was saying with UpToDate, a database of accurate medical information). Even just having it reword something or having it spit out ways to remember a concept worked really well.
Again, it’s not there yet and cannot be trusted, but it will be able to be trusted soon enough and it’s going to change medicine.
AI medical chatbots will soon be bundled in EMRs and doctors are going to be able to punch in questions on the fly to get accurate and specific answers to the issues that arise.