There has been much conjecture about how artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as ChatGPT could be employed in medicine.
A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine conducted by John W. Ayers, Ph.D., of the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego, provides an early look at the role that AI assistants could play in medicine. The study contrasted written responses from physicians to real-world health questions with those from ChatGPT. ChatGPT’s responses were favored 79% of the time by a panel of licensed healthcare professionals, who assessed ChatGPT’s responses as higher quality and more compassionate.
“The opportunities for improving healthcare with AI are massive,” said Ayers, who is also vice head of innovation in the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine. “AI-augmented care is the way of the future in medicine.”
