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ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study (www.nbcnews.com)

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Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care.

ChatGPT Health

OpenAI's new health-focused chatbot

frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine.

In the study, researchers tested ChatGPT Health's ability to triage, or assess the severity of, medical cases based on real-life scenarios.

Previous research has shown that ChatGPT can pass medical exams, and nearly two-thirds of physicians reported using some form of AI in 2024. But other research has shown that chatbots, including ChatGPT, don't provide reliable medical advice.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Showing that someone hasn't answered your quiz question correctly isn't a great way to make an argument.

[–] nate3d@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You’ve missed the point - I was responding to someone answering in an authoritative manner about something of which they were mis-informed. I posed a question someone in the space would immediately know. The disappointing part is simply pasting my question into any search engine or LLM would immediately have said “Temperature.”

This is a perfect example of how we’re using our brain less and less and simply relying on “something” else to answer it for us. Do your research. Learn and teach.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Nothing Kairos is saying is misinformation though. Temperature applies randomness to a generated probability distribution for tokens. That doesn't mean the probability distribution wasn't generated deterministically. That doesn't mean the randomness applied couldn't be deterministic. How they describe it working is accurate, they don't need to prove their qualifications and knowledge of jargon for that to be a good argument, and by focusing on that aspect of things in a way that doesn't contradict the point, you are making a bad argument.

What's lost is the question of what determinism even means in this context or why a property of being deterministic would even matter. It is unclear how being deterministic or not deterministic, by any definition, would have anything to do with how good a LLM is at making correct medical decisions, like the person starting this comment chain was implying.