TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial Commentary
T2 - At Present, ChatGPT Cannot Be Relied Upon to Answer Patient Questions and Requires Physician Expertise to Interpret Answers for Patients
AU - Hurley, Eoghan T.
AU - Crook, Bryan S.
AU - Dickens, Jonathan F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Arthroscopy Association of North America
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - ChatGPT is designed to provide accurate and reliable information to the best of its abilities based on the data input and knowledge available. Thus, ChatGPT is being studied as a patient information tool. This artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been shown to frequently provide technically correct information but with limitations. ChatGPT provides different answers to similar questions based on the prompts, and patients may not have expertise in prompting ChatGPT to elicit a best answer. (Prompting large language models has been shown to be a skill that can improve.) Of greater concern, ChatGPT fails to provide sources or references for its answers. At present, ChatGPT cannot be relied upon to address patient questions; in the future, ChatGPT will improve. Today, AI requires physician expertise to interpret AI answers for patients.
AB - ChatGPT is designed to provide accurate and reliable information to the best of its abilities based on the data input and knowledge available. Thus, ChatGPT is being studied as a patient information tool. This artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been shown to frequently provide technically correct information but with limitations. ChatGPT provides different answers to similar questions based on the prompts, and patients may not have expertise in prompting ChatGPT to elicit a best answer. (Prompting large language models has been shown to be a skill that can improve.) Of greater concern, ChatGPT fails to provide sources or references for its answers. At present, ChatGPT cannot be relied upon to address patient questions; in the future, ChatGPT will improve. Today, AI requires physician expertise to interpret AI answers for patients.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85190298474&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.arthro.2024.02.039
DO - 10.1016/j.arthro.2024.02.039
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 38484923
AN - SCOPUS:85190298474
SN - 0749-8063
VL - 40
SP - 2080
EP - 2082
JO - Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
JF - Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
IS - 7
ER -