74 - R2D2

Bedside Rounds by Adam Rodman

Sep 3, 202333:22Science & Medicine

What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023,...

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