Business Insider June 6, 2023
ChatGPT might replace your doctor — and it will actually do a better job of caring for you
Nobody expects touchy-feely niceties from a chatbot. Mediocre writing, sure, along with some made-up facts and a bit of random racism. I’ve written about those AI downsides myself.
But these big, new chatbots can, as we know, also generate human-sounding responses to prompts and questions. And in a recent head-to-head test, that capability gave the bots a surprising superiority in what ought to be one of the most intrinsically human of all activities: serving as a doctor.
To conduct the test, a team of researchers from the University of California in San Diego lurked on r/AskDocs, a Reddit forum where registered, verified...
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