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The building buzz for ChatGPT in health care
It feels like ChatGPT is making headlines every day: The program has generated huge interest — including a pledged multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft — for its ability to write nearly anything it’s asked to write and to answer questions. Users come up with a steady string of new ways to put the AI chatbot to the test. And medicine is no exception. So far, it’s passed a version of the U.S. medical licensing exam and been used to chart patient information and draft appeals to insurance denials. But what limitations and risks have those experiments exposed? And where might the technology be used in health care going forward? Can it rescue physicians from rote tasks, or should it be used to tackle complex scientific questions? I talked to experts about the technology, its risks, and its potential in a new deep dive out this morning — read here.
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