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Artificial intelligence chatbots will revolutionize how cancer patients access information: ChatGPT represents a paradigm-shift

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Hopkins, Ashley M, Logan, Jessica M, Kichenadasse, Ganessan, Sorich, Michael J·2023·JNCI Cancer Spectrum

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On November 30, 2022, OpenAI enabled public access to ChatGPT, a next-generation artificial intelligence with a highly sophisticated ability to write, solve coding issues, and answer questions. This communication draws attention to the prospect that ChatGPT and its successors will become important virtual assistants to patients and health-care providers. In our assessments, ranging from answering basic fact-based questions to responding to complex clinical questions, ChatGPT demonstrated a remarkable ability to formulate interpretable responses, which appeared to minimize the likelihood of alarm compared with Google’s feature snippet. Arguably, the ChatGPT use case presents an urgent need for regulators and health-care professionals to be involved in developing standards for minimum quality and to raise patient awareness of current limitations of emerging artificial intelligence assistants. This commentary aims to raise awareness at the tipping point of a paradigm shift.

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Authors
Hopkins, A. M., Logan, J. M., Kichenadasse, G., & Sorich, M. J.
Affiliations
  • Flinders University (AU)
  • University of South Australia (AU)
Corresponding author
Hopkins, Ashley M
Venue
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Published
2023-02-21
Volume
7
Issue
2
ISSN
2515-5091 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4321436564
Cited by
259
References
3
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 100 · 2023: 81 · 2022: 1
FWCI
10.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • JNCI Cancer Spectrum (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UniSA Research Outputs Repository (University of South Australia) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP2008119)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Keywords
ChatGPT, large language models, AI chatbots, cancer patients, patient data access, virtual assistants, medical question answering, AI regulation
MeSH terms
Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Health Personnel, Humans, Neoplasms, Probability

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