News-Medical.Net March 11, 2025
Can AI chatbots like ChatGPT give better medical answers than Google? A new study shows they can — but only if you ask them the right way.
How reliable are search engines and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots when it comes to answering health-related questions? In a recent study published in NPJ Digital Medicine, Spanish researchers investigated the performance of four major search engines and seven large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT and GPT-4, in answering 150 medical questions. The findings revealed interesting patterns in accuracy, prompt sensitivity, and retrieval-augmented model effectiveness.
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The internet has now become a primary source of health information, with millions relying on search engines to find medical advice. However, search engines often return...
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