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Agency\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Next time you\u2019re considering consulting Dr ChatGPT, perhaps think again.<\/p>\n

Despite now being able to ace most medical licensing exams, artificial intelligence chatbots do not give humans better health advice than they can find using more traditional methods, according to a study published on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite all the hype, AI just isn\u2019t ready to take on the role of the physician,\u201d study co-author Rebecca Payne from Oxford University said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients need to be aware that asking a large language model about their symptoms can be dangerous, giving wrong diagnoses and failing to recognise when urgent help is needed,\u201d she added in a statement.<\/p>\n

The British-led team of researchers wanted to find out how successful humans are when they use chatbots to identify their health problems and whether they require seeing a doctor or going to hospital.<\/p>\n

The team presented nearly 1,300 UK-based participants with 10 different scenarios, such as a headache after a night out drinking, a new mother feeling exhausted, or what having gallstones feels like.<\/p>\n

Then the researchers randomly assigned the participants one of three chatbots: OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o, Meta\u2019s Llama 3, or Command R+. There was also a control group that used internet search engines.<\/p>\n

People using the AI chatbots were only able to identify their health problem around a third of the time, while only around 45 per cent figured out the right course of action.<\/p>\n

This was no better than the control group, according to the study published in the Nature Medicine journal.<\/p>\n

The researchers pointed out the disparity between these disappointing results and how AI chatbots score extremely highly on medical benchmarks and exams, blaming the gap on a communication breakdown.<\/p>\n

Unlike the simulated patient interactions often used to test AI, the real humans often did not give the chatbots all the relevant information.<\/p>\n

And sometimes the humans struggled to interpret the options offered by the chatbot, or misunderstood or simply ignored its advice.<\/p>\n

One out of every six US adults ask AI chatbots about health information at least once a month, the researchers said, with that number expected to increase as more people adopt the new technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very important study as it highlights the real medical risks posed to the public by chatbots,\u201d David Shaw, a bioethicist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the research, told AFP.<\/p>\n

He advised people to only trust medical information from reliable sources, such as the UK\u2019s National Health Service.<\/p>\n

AFP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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