A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
ChatGPT outperformed doctors in diagnosing disease in a study that looked at whether the chatbot could help doctors diagnose illnesses. Doctors who had help from the chatbot performed only slightly better than doctors without the tool, showing how doctors sometimes will stick to their diagnoses even when presented with a potentially better option. Many of the doctors didn't know how to use chatbots and treated ChatGPT like a search engine for direct questions, which could have affected results. Only a small fraction of the doctors copied the entire case history into the chatbot and asked it to answer the entire question.