Paging Dr. AI
Reader's Digest US|March/April 2024
IF YOU'VE EVER Googled symptoms (and who hasn't?), you've probably scared yourself with a dire diagnosis, with no doctor there to vet the source and put the information in context. But we can't help ourselves. So can AI help?
Melissa Greer
Paging Dr. AI

Natural-language tools powered by artificial intelligence are trained using books, scientific research and data from the internet. They can then generate answers to questions, write articles and mimic human conversation. Some, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Med-PaLM, have even passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam.

This story is from the March/April 2024 edition of Reader's Digest US.

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