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As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Riley Lyons' biggest responsibilities include triage: When a patient comes in with an eye-related complaint, Lyons must make an immediate assessment of its urgency.
He often finds patients have already turned to "Dr. Google." Online, Lyons said, they are likely to find that "any number of terrible things could be going on based on the symptoms that they're experiencing."
So, when two of Lyons' fellow ophthalmologists at Emory came to him and suggested evaluating the accuracy of the AI chatbot ChatGPT in diagnosing eye-related complaints, he jumped at the chance.
As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Riley Lyons' biggest responsibilities include triage: When a patient comes in with an eye-related complaint, Lyons must make an immediate assessment of its urgency.
He often finds patients have already turned to "Dr. Google." Online, Lyons said, they are likely to find that "any number of terrible things could be going on based on the symptoms that they're experiencing."
So, when two of Lyons' fellow ophthalmologists at Emory came to him and suggested evaluating the accuracy of the AI chatbot ChatGPT in diagnosing eye-related complaints, he jumped at the chance.
'Dr. Google' meets its match in Dr. ChatGPT
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""One hundred million people have ChatGPT on their phone," said Ayers, "and are asking questions right now. People are going to use chatbots with or without us."
At present, though, there are few signs that rigorous testing of AIs for safety and effectiveness is imminent. In May, Robert Califf, the commissioner of the FDA, described "the regulation of large language models as critical to our future," but aside from recommending that regulators be "nimble" in their approach, he offered few details.
In the meantime, the race is on. In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Mayo Clinic was partnering with Google to integrate the Med-PaLM 2 chatbot into its system. In June, WebMD announced it was partnering with a Pasadena, California-based startup, HIA Technologies Inc., to provide interactive "digital health assistants."
And the ongoing integration of AI into both Microsoft's Bing and Google Search suggests that Dr. Google is already well on its way to being replaced by Dr. Chatbot."
...""One hundred million people have ChatGPT on their phone," said Ayers, "and are asking questions right now. People are going to use chatbots with or without us."
At present, though, there are few signs that rigorous testing of AIs for safety and effectiveness is imminent. In May, Robert Califf, the commissioner of the FDA, described "the regulation of large language models as critical to our future," but aside from recommending that regulators be "nimble" in their approach, he offered few details.
In the meantime, the race is on. In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Mayo Clinic was partnering with Google to integrate the Med-PaLM 2 chatbot into its system. In June, WebMD announced it was partnering with a Pasadena, California-based startup, HIA Technologies Inc., to provide interactive "digital health assistants."
And the ongoing integration of AI into both Microsoft's Bing and Google Search suggests that Dr. Google is already well on its way to being replaced by Dr. Chatbot."
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