Share Topics Science & Tech UK How would you like to be seen by an AI doctor? You might already be seeing one. Indeed, it turns out that already one in five British GPs is using artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT in clinical practice. In the largest survey of its kind, I asked 1,000 GPs across the UK about their experiences with generative AI. Among the 20 per cent who have embraced these tools, nearly 30 per cent use them for filling in documentation after patient visits. Perhaps more alarmingly, for some at least, 28 per cent use AI to help generate a list of possible diagnoses, and 25 per cent use it to explore treatment options.
Bots such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Bing AI are the latest AI sensations. These generative-AI tools derive their responses from vast troves of data. Users can ask chatbots questions and, unlike search engines, they will deliver conversational responses. You can feed it a set of symptoms and it will spit out a list of potential ailments. It’s like talking to the internet, on steroids.
In public discussions and lectures I have given, doctors often express disbelief at my survey findings – that so many healthcare professionals are using AI to help them do their jobs. Yet privately, many others tell me that they have dabbled with these tools themselves. A study I conducted in the US in October 2023 – nearly a year after ChatGPT’s public release – found that four in 10 psychiatrists have used AI to assist with clinical tasks.
It’s not only doctors, either. AI is also encroaching on other fields. Last November, a Salesforce survey across 14 countries found that 64 per cent of workers had passed off generative AI’s work as their own. In February this year, a Pew Research study reported that a quarter of Americans use AI ‘almost constantly’ or several times a day. Younger people are the fastest adopters, with more than four in 10 people under the age of 30 having dabbled in ChatGPT.
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