ChatGPT Sent Me To The ER
- The title is click-bait-y, but the author actually did have a rare condition that required immediate attention.
- LLMs have infinite patience and encyclopedic knowledge.
- They won't judge you, and they're easy to call up in an instant for basically free.
- They make it easy for people to discover potentially rare conditions.
- Of course, presumably the rate of false positives is also very high.
- But as a front-line for "how seriously should I take this given these precise symptoms" it can be huge.