Key Highlights
- In just the first 15 days of the year, from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s latest medical tools to Google’s MedGamma 1.5, tech giants have placed their foot to integrate health-focused capabilities into their AI platforms. However, the big question remains: are these developments genuinely useful, or do they come with hidden risks?To explore this, Firstpost spoke to Dr Ishwar Gilada, an infectious disease expert, to understand how the doctors view this growing overlap between AI and healthcare. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADAre AI chatbots helpful in healthcare?
- Yes and noThe debate around AI health tools flared up again recently following the rollout of new health-focused chatbots, particularly OpenAI ChatGPT Health.
- The launch made headlines in Australia, but for all the wrong reasons. The Guardian has recently reported that a 60-year-old man with no history of mental illness arrived at a hospital emergency department convinced that his neighbour was trying to poison him.
- Within 24 hours, his condition deteriorated, and he began hallucinating and even attempted to flee the hospital. More from Tech Anthropic ropes in Microsoft ex-executive Irina Ghose as Managing Director of India Nvidia CEO Jenseng Huang wants his engineers to stop coding and do this insteadDoctors were initially confused, but eventually traced the cause to an unexpected source.
- The man had been consuming sodium bromide daily, a chemical compound typically used in industrial cleaning and water treatment.
