ChatGPT in Medicine

Author

Christopher Pinard
May 08, 2023

ChatGPT in medicine: an overview of its applications, advantages, limitations, future prospects, and ethical considerations

Tirth Dave,Sai Anirudh Athaluri and Satyam Singh

Key Points:

  • ChatGPT is an advanced language model that leverages deep learning techniques to produce human-like responses to natural language inputs (Radford et al, 2018)

  • These applications come with several limitations and ethical considerations like credibility, plagiarism (Biswas, 2023; King and ChatGPT, 2023), and more which are presented in more detail later in this paper

  • Recent discussions have emerged regarding the authorship of ChatGPT in research papers, which entail various criteria and considerations that will be explored in this paper

  • This paper provides an analysis and presentation of the advantages, limitations, ethical considerations, future prospects, and practical applications of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare and medical domains

  • Overcoming the current limitations of ChatGPT, such as improving and training the chatbot to provide 100% accurate and unbiased information from the sources, is essential to address the accountability concerns that have prevented the majority of journals from allowing ChatGPT as an author

  • Future research can focus on developing methods to mitigate these limitations while harnessing the benefits of ChatGPT in the healthcare and medical sectors

Summary:

This paper presents an analysis of the advantages, limitations, ethical considerations, future prospects, and practical applications of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare and medical domains. ChatGPT is an advanced language model that uses deep learning techniques to produce human-like responses to natural language inputs. It is part of the family of generative pre-training transformer (GPT) models developed by OpenAI and is currently one of the largest publicly available language models. ChatGPT is capable of capturing the nuances and intricacies of human language, allowing it to generate appropriate and contextually relevant responses across a broad spectrum of prompts. The potential applications of ChatGPT in the medical field range from identifying potential research topics to assisting professionals in clinical and laboratory diagnosis. Additionally, it can be used to help medical students, doctors, nurses, and all members of the healthcare fraternity to know about updates and new developments in their respective fields. The development of virtual assistants to aid patients in managing their health is another important application of ChatGPT in medicine. Despite its potential applications, the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools in medical writing also poses ethical and legal concerns. These include possible infringement of copyright laws, medico-legal complications, and the need for transparency in AI-generated content. In conclusion, ChatGPT has several potential applications in the medical and healthcare fields. However, these applications come with several limitations and ethical considerations which are presented in detail along with future prospects in medicine and healthcare.

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