The Potential of ChatGPT as a Self-Diagnostic Tool in Common Orthopedic Diseases: Exploratory Study

• Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research Vol. 25; no. 11; p. e47621
• Main Authors: Kuroiwa, Tomoyuki, Sarcon, Aida, Ibara, Takuya, Yamada, Eriku, Yamamoto, Akiko, Tsukamoto, Kazuya, Fujita, Koji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications Inc 15.09.2023; Journal of Medical Internet Research; Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Accuracy; Answers; Arthritis; Artificial Intelligence; Attention; Chatbots; Clinical standards; Communication; Computational linguistics; Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics; Diagnostic tests; Disease; Health care; Health care delivery; Humans; Knee; Language processing; Lumbar spinal stenosis; Medical care; Medical diagnosis; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Multimedia; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Natural language interfaces; Natural Language Processing; Original Paper; Orthopedics; Osteoarthritis; Osteoarthritis, Knee; Pain; Patients; Popularity; Public aspects of medicine; Quality management; R858-859.7; RA1-1270; Repetitive strain injuries; Reproducibility; Reproducibility of Results; Selfdiagnosis; Spinal Cord Diseases; chatbot; natural language processing; precision; accuracy; diagnosis; language model; health information; orthopedic disease; artificial intelligence; generative pretrained transformer; AI model; ChatGPT; self-diagnosis

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained tremendous popularity recently, especially the use of natural language processing (NLP). ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art chatbot capable of creating natural conversations using NLP. The use of AI in medicine can have a tremendous impact on health care delivery....