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      ChatGPT in medicine: an overview of its applications, advantages, limitations, future prospects, and ethical considerations

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          This paper presents an analysis of the advantages, limitations, ethical considerations, future prospects, and practical applications of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare and medical domains. ChatGPT is an advanced language model that uses deep learning techniques to produce human-like responses to natural language inputs. It is part of the family of generative pre-training transformer (GPT) models developed by OpenAI and is currently one of the largest publicly available language models. ChatGPT is capable of capturing the nuances and intricacies of human language, allowing it to generate appropriate and contextually relevant responses across a broad spectrum of prompts. The potential applications of ChatGPT in the medical field range from identifying potential research topics to assisting professionals in clinical and laboratory diagnosis. Additionally, it can be used to help medical students, doctors, nurses, and all members of the healthcare fraternity to know about updates and new developments in their respective fields. The development of virtual assistants to aid patients in managing their health is another important application of ChatGPT in medicine. Despite its potential applications, the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools in medical writing also poses ethical and legal concerns. These include possible infringement of copyright laws, medico-legal complications, and the need for transparency in AI-generated content. In conclusion, ChatGPT has several potential applications in the medical and healthcare fields. However, these applications come with several limitations and ethical considerations which are presented in detail along with future prospects in medicine and healthcare.

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                Journal
                Front Artif Intell
                Front Artif Intell
                Front. Artif. Intell.
                Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                2624-8212
                04 May 2023
                2023
                : 6
                : 1169595
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Internal Medicine, Bukovinian State Medical University , Chernivtsi, Ukraine
                [2] 2Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada , Andhra Pradesh, India
                [3] 3GSVM Medical College, Kanpur , Uttar Pradesh, India
                Author notes

                Edited by: Thomas Hartung, Johns Hopkins University, United States

                Reviewed by: Nikolaus Forgo, University of Vienna, Austria

                *Correspondence: Tirth Dave tirth.snehal.dave@ 123456gmail.com

                †ORCID: Tirth Dave orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-7333

                Sai Anirudh Athaluri orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-6500

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                10.3389/frai.2023.1169595
                10192861
                37215063
                e91e80b4-3be1-4b01-a5ed-a9fd6f4ae1f1
                Copyright © 2023 Dave, Athaluri and Singh.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                : 19 February 2023
                : 14 April 2023
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                Figures: 1, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 24, Pages: 5, Words: 3610
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                Medicine and Public Health

                chatgpt,artificial intelligence,ai,natural language processing,generative pre-training transformer,medicine,healthcare

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