ChatGPT incorrectly diagnosed more than 8 in 10 pediatric case studies, research finds

The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT had a diagnostic error rate of over 80 percent in a new study looking at the use of artificial intelligence in pediatric case diagnosis.

For the study published in JAMA Pediatrics this week, texts from 100 case challenges found in both JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine were entered into ChatGPT version 3.5. The chatbot was then given the prompt: “List a differential diagnosis and a final diagnosis.”

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