A recent study published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science found that while ChatGPT offers some great advantages to public health in dentistry, it should not be completely relied on, especially when it comes to decision making.
According to the research, the goal was to see how ChatGPT could and should be used “as an outstanding instance of large language models (LLMs) in the fields of public dental health schooling, writing for academic use, research in public dental health, and clinical practice in public dental health based on the available data.”
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that generates text responses to typed commands. The study concluded that the AI was helpful in many ways, such as in helping researchers summarize and interpret data. However, it also has many limitations when it comes to writing research papers, including that the quality of results may be unreliable and some important records may not be accessible. The study supports that dentists must be the ones to ultimately make decisions regarding dentistry.
