Health Imaging October 8, 2024
If ChatGPT were in charge of an emergency department (ED), patients would likely end up with a bill for unnecessary tests and treatment, a study published in Nature Communications found. [1]
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) tested the ability of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4—the underlying models of ChatGPT—to make snappy decisions about care in an emergency setting, only to find it tends to overprescribe antibiotics, order too many X-rays and admit patients to the hospital unnecessarily.
The popular AI chatbot—which has shown an aptitude for clinical decision making in other studies—was outperformed by a resident ED doctor, even when prompted in ways that tended to make it more accurate.
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