The chatbot will see you now

ChatGPT Plus is shown on a mobile phone, in New York. About one in six adults – and about a quarter of adults younger than 30 – use chatbots to find medical advice and information at least once a month, according to a recent survey from KFF, a nonprofit health policy research organisation. — The New York Times

Susan Sheridan had heard of ChatGPT but had never used it, so the first question she asked the artificial intelligence chatbot was a bit garbled: “Facial droop, facial pain and dental work.”

She had turned to ChatGPT in a moment of desperation. The right side of her face was sagging, she tripped over words as she spoke and her head hurt so much that she couldn’t rest her head on the pillow.