Artificial Intelligence and Cataract/Glaucoma

In the May 2024 edition of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Dr. Andrew Mihalache and colleagues published a correspondence. Their article had to do with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4; they made inquiries of these two chatbots based on guidelines from the American Academy of Ophthalmology about cataracts and glaucoma.

They found that GPT-4 did better than GPT-3.5 in delivering responses, but both chatbots did quite well. They felt that GPT-4 might give users useful responses, and these chatbots obviously are easy to access. This is a brave new frontier in medicine, but, thankfully, no chatbot will be too good at taking out cataracts any time soon.