Potential applications of ChatGPT in healthcare in India

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By Rohitashva Agrawal | Mar 01, 2023

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ChatGPT is revolutionary and, despite its flaws, may still be the next big thing in healthcare, above all in India where the existing health system is deficient, but many elements of ChatGPT still need more rigorous vetting before it deploys in a regulated healthcare environment.

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"AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity.” Elon Musk¹

ChatGPT is the latest tech flash to be unleashed on the world and is creating a lot of buzz everywhere. The fact that anyone can use it in multiple languages is already incredible.²As a generative intelligence, it can change people’s behavior in how they seek answers to healthcare-related queries. In short, even if it is just the beginning of greater things to come, this technology can be the real disruptor Indian healthcare has been waiting for.

There has also been a lot of chatter about the plausible uses of ChatGPT in the complicated world of healthcare, though this has not received as much attention. For the uninitiated, ChatGPT - the GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer - is a state-of-the-art language generation model that can understand and respond to natural language inputs.³ChatGPT demonstrated its potential when it authored a medical research paper and was included as the author,⁴ and it even passed the US medical licensing exam,⁵ known as the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE),⁵and recently cleared the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s MBA exam as well.⁶

These examples demonstrate that ChatGPT is something very different from the incremental innovations of the recent past. This makes it more intriguing to see how it will evolve and its role in healthcare delivery in a vast and complex country like India.

India is one of the world’s most diverse countries, and thus far few technologies have managed to significantly disrupt the nation’s healthcare. However, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the way healthc

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