To AI or not to AI in Medical Practice

Rai Mra¹

Published in Volume 68, No. 2, 2026 April – June issue

https://doi.org/10.64455/xmma0022

ChatGPT developed by OpenAI was released to the public in November 2022. It is based on the principle of a large language model (LLM) which is an advanced artificial intelligence system designed to process, understand, and generate human language.

ChatGPT is one of the most popular applications (apps) and since it is trained on an astronomical amount of data from the internet it can answer medically related questions and has been used by doctors to help formulate diagnosis, differential diagnoses, management plans, and to scan medical journals, summarize articles and get management guidelines very quickly.

AI is highly accessible, very versatile, convincing and gives answers promptly. However there is concern among clinicians regarding the accuracy, value and utility of AI tools.

There is such a proliferation of medical knowledge and advances nowadays that doctors are under pressure to keep up with them. ChatGPT has the capacity to provide processing and analysis of medical data very quickly and there is a huge potential in the field of medicine. The medical information obtained from ChatGPT should be checked and reviewed by doctors using them.

AI is no longer a futuristic concept. Used properly and systemically AI can be a very good assistant and augment medical practice, but the physician remains the main decision maker.

1. 1. Professor and Head (Rtd), Department of Haematology, University of Medicine (1) Yangon, Myanmar

Past President of Myanmar Medical Association
Senior Editor, Myanmar Medical Journal

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