Medscape October 20, 2023
GLASGOW, Scotland ― ChatGPT failed to pass the UK’s National Primary Care examinations in a new study, highlighting how artificial intelligence (AI) does not necessarily match human perceptions of medical complexity.
ChatGPT also provided novel explanations ― it frequently “hallucinates” ― by describing inaccurate information as if they were facts, according to Shathar Mahmood, BA, a fifth-year medical student at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK, who presented the findings at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference 2023. The study was published in JMIR Medical Education earlier this year.
“Artificial intelligence has generated impressive results across medicine, and with the release of ChatGPT there is now discussion about these large language...