Powerful Google tool is almost as good as human doctors in giving answers to basic ailment questions

Family doctors already have patients turning to'Dr Google' for a diagnosis. But Google has now developed AI which could perform as well as a doctor when answering questions about ailments. The tech giant reports in the journal, Nature, that its latest model, which processes language similarly to ChatGPT, can answer a range of medical questions with 92.6 per cent accuracy. That is on a par with the answers provided by nine doctors from the UK, US and India, who were asked to respond to the same 80 questions. Researchers at Google say the technology does not threaten the jobs of GPs. Google has now developed AI which could perform as well as a doctor when answering questions about ailments.