{"id":16655,"date":"2024-11-17T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16655"},"modified":"2024-11-17T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T10:35:18","slug":"chatgpt-defeated-doctors-at-diagnosing-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16655","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Adam Rodman, an expert in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, confidently expected that chatbots built to use artificial intelligence would help doctors diagnose illnesses.<\/p>\n

He was wrong.<\/p>\n

Instead, in a study<\/a> Dr. Rodman helped design, doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did only slightly better than doctors who did not have access to the bot. And, to the researchers\u2019 surprise, ChatGPT alone outperformed the doctors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked,\u201d Dr. Rodman said.<\/p>\n

The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a medical condition from a case report and explaining its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got an average score of 76 percent. Those randomly assigned not to use it had an average score of 74 percent.<\/p>\n

The study showed more than just the chatbot\u2019s superior performance.<\/p>\n

It unveiled doctors\u2019 sometimes unwavering belief in a diagnosis they made, even when a chatbot potentially suggests a better one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And the study illustrated that while doctors are being exposed to the tools of artificial intelligence for their work, few know how to exploit the abilities of chatbots. As a result, they failed to take advantage of A.I. systems\u2019 ability to solve complex diagnostic problems and offer explanations for their diagnoses.<\/p>\n

A.I. systems should be \u201cdoctor extenders,\u201d Dr. Rodman said, offering valuable second opinions on diagnoses.<\/p>\n

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A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.Dr. Adam Rodman, an expert in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, confidently expected that chatbots built to use artificial intelligence would help doctors diagnose illnesses.He was wrong.Instead, in a study Dr. Rodman helped design, doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did only slightly better than doctors who did not have access to the bot. And, to the researchers\u2019 surprise, ChatGPT alone outperformed the doctors.\u201cI was shocked,\u201d Dr. Rodman said.The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a medical condition from a case report and explaining its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got an average score of 76 percent. Those randomly assigned not to use it had an average score of 74 percent.The study showed more than just the chatbot\u2019s superior performance.It unveiled doctors\u2019 sometimes unwavering belief in a diagnosis they made, even when a chatbot potentially suggests a better one.And the study illustrated that while doctors are being exposed to the tools of artificial intelligence for their work, few know how to exploit the abilities of chatbots. As a result, they failed to take advantage of A.I. systems\u2019 ability to solve complex diagnostic problems and offer explanations for their diagnoses.A.I. systems should be \u201cdoctor extenders,\u201d Dr. Rodman said, offering valuable second opinions on diagnoses.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16657,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions\/16658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}