Could ChatGPT be your next eye doctor?

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Large language models such as ChatGPT appear to be able to provide similar answers to questions about eye health as you would receive from an actual eye doctor, say US researchers. The team posed the responses to 200 questions from an online advice forum to eight eye doctors, who rated the quality of the answers. They say that ratings of the quality of chatbot and human answers were not significantly different regarding inclusion of incorrect information, likelihood of harm caused, extent of harm, or deviation from community standards.

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From: JAMA

Comparison of Ophthalmologist and AI Chatbot Responses to Online Patient Eye Care Questions

About The Study: In this study of human-written and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated responses to 200 eye care questions from an online advice forum, a chatbot appeared capable of responding to long user-written eye health posts and largely generated appropriate responses that did not differ significantly from ophthalmologist-written responses in terms of incorrect information, likelihood of harm, extent of harm, or deviation from ophthalmologist community standards.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: Stanford University, USA

Funder: National Eye Institute (grant No. K23EY03263501); Career Development Award from Research to Prevent Blindness; an unrestricted departmental grant from Stanford University for Research to Prevent Blindness; departmental grant National Eye Institute (grant No. P30-EY026877).

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