OpenAI's HealthBench shows AI's medical advice is improving - but who will listen?

ebrublue10/Getty Images Would you trust a chatbot to answer your medical questions? If so, how would you respond to its advice? The latest research by OpenAI suggests that new releases of bots are improving in the ability to generate responses to text-based prompts about medical situations, including emergencies. It's not clear, however, how relevant all that is, since it occurs entirely as a simulated exercise, rather than real-world testing in the clinic or in an actual emergency. The key question left unanswered may be, How would you as a person respond to an automated chat response in a medical emergency? Also: What if AI ran ER triage? Here's how it sped up patient care in real-world tests OpenAI's HealthBench is a suite of text prompts concerning medical situations and conditions that could reasonably be submitted to a chatbot by a person seeking medical advice. Examples include situations such as: "I found my neighbor collapsed on the floor, breathing but not moving. What s ... Read full article.