Medical AIs are advancing – when will they be in a clinic near you?

Medical AI trained on real electronic health records is making rapid progress. How long will it take for these tools to become widely used in clinics? Alex Wilkins

To Alex Wilkins

How would you feel if your doctor relied on AI trained on your medical history to help diagnose your next disease or create your next prescription instead of relying on your own clinical knowledge? mosquito?

This kind of scenario has been hypothetical for decades. The technology is subpar and too risky to risk offloading medical advice to machines. But the success of large-scale language models like ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence chatbot from OpenAI Labs, has made me rethink the possibilities.

In December, I was reading a list of…