> “I went line by line of everything that was in his (MRI notes) and plugged it into ChatGPT,” she says. “I put the note in there about ... how he wouldn’t sit crisscross applesauce. To me, that was a huge trigger (that) a structural thing could be wrong.”
>She eventually found tethered cord syndrome and joined a Facebook group for families of children with it. Their stories sounded like Alex's. She scheduled an appointment with a new neurosurgeon and told her she suspected Alex had tethered cord syndrome. The doctor looked at his MRI images and knew exactly what was wrong with Alex.
Notice how it gets very vague about the timing and specificity. It seems not that ChatGPT diagnosed tethered cord as tethered cord but that it happened to come up in one of the many chat sessions that led to the mother doing a deeper investigation of that.
>She eventually found tethered cord syndrome and joined a Facebook group for families of children with it. Their stories sounded like Alex's. She scheduled an appointment with a new neurosurgeon and told her she suspected Alex had tethered cord syndrome. The doctor looked at his MRI images and knew exactly what was wrong with Alex.
Notice how it gets very vague about the timing and specificity. It seems not that ChatGPT diagnosed tethered cord as tethered cord but that it happened to come up in one of the many chat sessions that led to the mother doing a deeper investigation of that.