Putting the General Practitioner in GPT

Why trust human error? AI delivers 100% accurate diagnoses, every time.

I don’t know about the healthcare system from whenever you are, but in my primeline, trying to get a doctor to look at a suspicious mole can land you in a waiting room for half the day. While wait-scrolling through the news I came across this article: Can ChatGPT Be a Doctor? Bot Passes Medical Exam, Diagnoses Conditions (insider.com) and it dawned on me (duh!) that I should get the hell out of this waiting room and jump in the janky time machine to get a robodoc to check me out.

It took me less that a few years (about 20 mins in your standard time speed) to get an appointment with GP-Titan. A surprisingly friendly robodoc with the skills of a Boston Dynamic robot dog and the bedside manner of a Roomba. He looked at that suspicious mole for exactly 0.05 ms and determined through a spectral analysis that it wasn’t dangerous. In fact, it wasn’t even a mole, it was Mole, the Mexican sauce. I had a burrito a decade ago (yesterday, for you) and spilled some on me. He wiped it off with a medical grade wetnap and I was on my way. Phiew, what a relief. Close call.

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