Heart-to-heart with ChatGPT: the impact of patients consulting AI for cardiovascular health advice.

Journal: Open heart
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The advent of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) systems employing large language models such as ChatGPT has sparked public, professional and academic debates on the capabilities of such technologies. This mixed-methods study sets out to review and systematically explore the capabilities of ChatGPT to adequately provide health advice to patients when prompted regarding four topics from the field of cardiovascular diseases.

Authors

  • Anton Danholt Lautrup
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
  • Tobias Hyrup
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
  • Anna Schneider-Kamp
    University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark.
  • Marie Dahl
    Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Jes Sanddal Lindholt
    Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
  • Peter Schneider-Kamp
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark petersk@sdu.dk.