Meet Dr. ChatGPT
NEW YORK TIMES
A survey last year found that about one in six adults — and a quarter of adults under 30 — regularly consult an A.I. bot like ChatGPT for medical information. To better understand why, my colleague Maggie Astor and I asked New York Times readers to share their own stories of medical consultations with chatbots.
Hundreds of people wrote in. In our conversations with them, we kept hearing versions of the same story: People aren’t getting what they need from the medical system; they say the wait times are too long, the doctors aren’t attentive, the bills are unaffordable.
Chatbots offer an alternative. There’s no waiting room, no 15-minute appointment in which you need to cram in all of your questions. The information is free, or close to it.
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