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Six ways large language models are changing healthcare

Nature Medicine asks six leading AI researchers to explain how LLM-powered chatbots are having an impact on health, from virtual nurses to detecting cancer progression.

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Webster, P. Six ways large language models are changing healthcare. Nat Med 29, 2969–2971 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02700-1

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