[carbocation]

I find chat GPT to be very helpful for working with programming languages that I’m less comfortable using (shell, python). I know enough to evaluate correct code in these languages, but producing it from scratch is more difficult, which seems like a sweet spot for carefully using ChatGPT for code.

As a physician, I would not be surprised if the medical use of these tools ends up having similar value.

[tstrimple]

I think the key here is that experts can take better advantage of tools like these because they have more ability to see when it's going off the rails. If you're a brand new programmer, you might be stumped if ChatGPT "hallucinates" a function which doesn't exist within an API. But an experience developer can pick up on the problem pretty quickly and either correct for it or know they need to pursue more traditional routes to solve the problem.

I recently used ChatGPT because my Google was failing to help me remember the name of the standard for securely sharing passwords between systems. My searches kept turning up end user password management related topics. ChatGPT got me to SCIM after one question and one correction.

I could absolutely see a doctor using something like a ChatGPT to help supplement their memory in a way I did. I don't think anyone recommends that doctors just trust ChatGPT, but to use it as a supplementary tool for their own expertise. Even if it's outside of their specific medical domain, it could help them get a basis for having a conversation with one of their specialist colleagues.

[haldujai]

Unlike search/random chatbots the bar to beat in medicine (UpToDate) is much higher, when that happens I agree (in terms of diagnosis and management).