Chat GPT | ChatGPT can be helpful in treating diseases: American doctors
File Photo Cambridge (UK): For many years, many have feared that artificial intelligence (AI) would take over national security systems and result in human enslavement, domination of human society and perhaps the destruction of humans . Misdiagnosis is one way to kill humans, so it seems fitting to investigate the performance of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s taking the world by storm. Multiple Attempts at Diagnosis This is timely in light of ChatGPT’s recent remarkable performance in passing the US Medical Licensing Exam. Computer-assisted diagnosis has been attempted several times over the years, particularly for the diagnosis of appendicitis. But the emergence of AI that scours the entire internet for answers to questions, rather than being limited to fixed databases, opens up potentially new avenues for improving medical diagnosis. Recently, several articles discuss the performance of ChatGPT in making medical diagnosis. A US emergency medicine physician recently described how he asked ChatGPT to give a possible diagnosis for a young woman with severe lower abdominal pain. The machine gave several reliable diagnoses, such as appendicitis and ovarian cyst problems, but it missed out on ectopic pregnancy. Correctly diagnosed as a serious lapse by the doctor Correctly diagnosed as a serious lapse by the doctor, and I agree. In my eyes, ChatGTP would not have passed his medical final exam with that fatal performance. ChatGPT learns I’m happy to say that when I asked ChatGPT the same question about a young woman with lower abdominal pain, ChatGPT confidently told the differential diagnosis about an ectopic pregnancy. It reminds us of one important thing about AI: it is capable of learning. Presumably, someone pointed out this error to ChatGPT and it has learned from this new data. It is this ability to learn that will improve the performance of AIs and make them stand out from computer-aided diagnosis algorithms. ChatGPT Prefers Technical Language Encouraged by ChatGPT’s performance with ectopic pregnancy, I decided to test it with a common presentation: a child with a sore throat and red facial rash. Rapidly, I received several sensible suggestions for what the diagnosis might be. Although it mentioned streptococcal sore throat, it did not mention the specific streptococcal throat infection, namely scarlet fever. The condition has resurfaced in recent years and is commonly missed because doctors my age and younger did not have the experience to detect it. Read also Its cases were rare The availability of good antibiotics had eliminated it, and its cases were rare. Intrigued by this omission, I added another element to my list of symptoms: perioral spasming. It is a classic feature of scarlet fever in which the skin around the mouth is pale but the rest of the face is red. When I added that to the list of symptoms, the top hit was scarlet fever. This leads me to my next point about ChatGPT. It prefers technical language. This could be the reason why it passed its medical examination. Medical exams are full of technical terms that are used because they are specialized. They provide precision on the language of medicine and thus refine the searches of the subjects. That’s all very well, but the question is, how many concerned mothers of red-faced, sore-throated children will be aware of technical terms like perioral spasming when describing a patient’s symptoms? Is our virtual doctor ready to see us now? Not completely. We need to put more wisdom into it, learn to communicate with it, and finally, be careful when discussing issues we don’t want our families to know about. (agency)