People struggle to get useful health advice from chatbots, study finds | TechCrunch

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- Oxford-led study looked at 1,300 people in the U
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- and gave them medical scenarios written by a group of doctors
- Participants were tasked with identifying potential health conditions and using chatbots, as well as their own methods, to figure out possible courses of action (e
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With long waiting lists and rising costs in overburdened healthcare systems, many people are turning to AIpowered chatbots like ChatGPT for medical selfdiagnosis. About 1 in 6 American adults alrea [+2874 chars]