When AI chatbots show signs of potential dementia


By AGENCY

Human doctors need not fear that AI-powered chatbots will take over their job with a study finding that most of the latter have mild cognitive impairment. — Freepik

Almost all leading large language models (LLMs) or “chatbots” show signs of mild cognitive impairment in tests widely used to spot early signs of dementia, finds a study in the Christmas issue* of The BMJ medical journal.

The results also show that “older” versions of chatbots, like older patients, tend to perform worse on the tests.

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