ChatGPT Fails at Recommending Cancer Treatment, Study Finds

As close and tempting as they sound, cancer treatment regimens designed by artificial intelligence tools are riddled with errors and still likely years away.

Computer-designed cancer treatment plans generated by OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT were plagued with a familiar problem, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found: Inappropriate treatment recommendations were intermingled with correct ones, making them especially hard to distinguish, according to the study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Oncology.

ChatGPT “speaks oftentimes in a very sure way that seems to make sense, and the way that it can mix incorrect and correct information is potentially dangerous,” ...