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Physician's medical decisions benefit from chatbot, study suggests

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Stanford study: Chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions.

When supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the chatbots.

Chatbot on its own outperformed the doctors who could access only an internet search and medical references, but armed with their own LLM , the doctors, from multiple regions and institutions across the United States , kept up with the chatbot.

A study detailing these results published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 5 ..

The positive outcomes for chatbots and physicians paired with chatbots beg an ever-popular question: Are AI doctors on their way? "Perhaps it's a point in AI 's favor," Chen said.

The study was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center and the VA Advanced Fellowship in Medical Informatics.