It turns out that ChatGPT is not only good at answering netizens' questions or helping with school assignments. So smart, this chatbot made by OpenAI can also pass the super difficult doctor's exam in the United States.
In a study published in the journal PLOS Digital Health, ChatGPT reportedly successfully completed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), an important exam that must be completed to obtain a physician's license in the US.
The USMLE consists of three types of tests that aim to test students in a variety of subjects across all medical and health-related disciplines, including biochemistry, clinical medicine, patient management, and bioethics.
In order to pass the USMLE, medical students must obtain a minimum score of 60%. To test ChatGPT's capabilities, researchers provided 350 of 376 publicly available questions from the June 2022 USMLE.
ChatGPT managed to score between 52.4% and 75% on three USMLE exams, which means that this chatbot has made it within the passing threshold.
"ChatGPT worked at or near the pass threshold for all three exams without any special training or enrichment," said the study authors, as quoted by The Daily Beast, Saturday (11/2/2023).
So, does this mean that ChatGPT or other chatbots will replace doctors and nurses in the future? Of course not, because the world of health and medicine, which is a matter of life and death, still requires human intervention. Moreover, the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers chatbots is still often inaccurate and shows bias.