Medical Xpress August 10, 2025
One in two Australians regularly use artificial intelligence (AI), with that number expected to grow. AI is showing up in our lives more prominently than ever, with the arrival of ChatGPT and other chatbots.
Researchers at CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Center (AEHRC) are exploring how AI—including the systems that underpin chatbots—can be leveraged for a more altruistic endeavor: to revolutionize health care.
Earlier versions of ChatGPT were built on an AI system called a large language model (LLM) and were entirely text-based. You would “talk” to it by entering text.
The latest version of ChatGPT, for instance, incorporates visual-language models (VLM) which add visual understanding on top of the LLM’s language skills. This allows it to “see,” describe what it...







