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I didn't know what to do, so I turned to ChatTPT.
How do you integrate this in a way that retains what is best about medicine?
They all say that health care is a sweet spot
This is Explained to Me from Vox. I'm Jonquan Hill. A couple weeks ago, I went to the doctor, and there was a moment during the appointment that really surprised me. She turned her computer monitor towards me, and there on the screen was this colorful dashboard with all kinds of numbers and percentages. She explained that she'd entered my information into a database with millions of other patients, and that database used AI to predict my most likely outcome. There it was, a snapshot of my future. Or at least, maybe my future. Usually, I'm skeptical when it comes to AI, but I do trust my doctors. So if I trust them, I should trust this technology too, right? It turns out, a lot of you already do.
I have used ChatGBT to diagnose myself. ChatGBT cured my acne. ChatTDP has actually helped me navigate the disease better than Most of the doctors. I found out the gender of my second baby by using ChatGPT. ChatGPT is honestly the most calming, reassuring voice of like, hey, great question.
Today on Explain It To Me.
Paging Dr. Chatbot. Paging Dr. Chatbot.
how AI is shaping the way we get medical care. We'll cover the do's and don'ts of self-diagnosis, how medical professionals are using these tools, and hear a doctor make the case for why AI is the key to a more human experience at the doctor's office.
Full disclosure, Vox Media has a partnership with OpenAI.
To start, I had to make an appointment with a doctor for an interview.
My name is Dhruv Kular. I'm a physician at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. I'm also a health services researcher here, as well as a writer at The New Yorker magazine.
One of the things he's written about for The New Yorker? Medical care and AI. Okay, so as a doctor, what do you think about folks who are self-diagnosing with AI chatbots?
Part of me feels like this is a natural thing that's going to happen, particularly in a system as difficult to access as ours is and as difficult to navigate as ours is. And AI is so fluent and so persuasive that it makes a lot of sense that people are starting to enter their symptoms into these chatbots and try to get diagnoses. But there's also real risks if you over-rely on AI. I mean, these things are not infallible. They can give you misleading or incorrect medical information.
You can give it a prompt and it will give you something back that's extremely convincing. And it's completely wrong. The GPT's job is to convince you that it's right. You should be careful. My worst fears are that we cause significant, we the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm.
You know, one of the things that's so interesting about these chatbots is that they're not like a COVID test or an MRI where you get the answer that you get. I mean, how accurate these chatbots are really depends on how you're prompting them.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:46
2
What prompted the host to investigate AI in medical diagnosis?
7:46–12:23
3
How common are patients using ChatGPT and other chatbots for self-diagnosis?
12:23–20:33
4
What risks do doctors warn about when patients rely on AI for medical advice?
20:33–28:13