At Present, ChatGPT Cannot be Relied Upon to Answer Patient Questions and Requires Physician Expertise to Interpret Answers for Patients

ChatGPT is designed to provide accurate and reliable information to the best of its abilities based on the data input and knowledge available. Thus, ChatGPT is being studied as a patient information tool. This artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been shown to frequently provide technically correct information, but with limitations. ChatGPT provides different answers to similar questions based on the prompts, and patients may not have expertise in prompting ChattPT to elicit a best answer. (Prompting large language models has been shown to be a skill that can improve).

Source: Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery - March 12, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Eoghan T. Hurley, Bryan S. Crook, Jonathan F. Dickens Tags: Editorial Commentary Source Type: research