There are a whole lot of people worried that artificial intelligences like ChatGPT might be on the verge of taking their jobs. Logistics, programming, tech support, customer support — all of it could easily be on the chopping block of AI.
Apparently doctors gotta worry too.
[Researchers at at UC San Diego] compiled a random sample of nearly 200 medical questions that patients posted on Reddit, a popular social discussion website, for doctors to answer. Next, they entered the questions into ChatGPT (OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot) and recorded its response. ...
For nearly 80% of the answers, the chatbots won out over the real doctors.
Do you know how antiquated the medical process really is? It's usually just a bunch of human beings standing around talking to each other.
Machines, meanwhile, just come pre-loaded with the solution. They can't help but know what the right answer is.
Merely giving the correct answer isn't necessarily enough. People want a human connection. A robot can't fill that role.
Then again:
ChatGPT was three times more likely to give a response that was very good or good compared to physicians, he told Fox News Digital. The chatbot was 10 times more likely to give a response that was either empathetic or very empathetic compared to physicians.
Yikes. Not a good sign.
