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Medical AI chatbots: are they safe to talk to patients?

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Artificial intelligence chatbots based on large language models can pass medical exams but their diagnoses are often inaccurate.

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Fig. 1: MedPaLM is trained on MultiMedQA, a corpus of medical multiple choice questions, including medical exams, long-form answers and manual evaluations by experts.

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Webster, P. Medical AI chatbots: are they safe to talk to patients?. Nat Med 29, 2677–2679 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02535-w

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