Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences, Penn Dental Medicine, Robert Schattner Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Periodontology, Endodontology, and Cariology, University Center for Dental Medicine Basel UZB, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
J Esthet Restor Dent. 2023 Oct;35(7):1098-1102. doi: 10.1111/jerd.13046. Epub 2023 Apr 5.
This article provides an overview of the implications of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) for dental medicine.
ChatGPT, a LLM trained on massive amounts of textual data, is adept at fulfilling various language-related tasks. Despite its impressive capabilities, ChatGPT has serious limitations, such as occasionally giving incorrect answers, producing nonsensical content, and presenting misinformation as fact. Dental practitioners, assistants, and hygienists are not likely to be significantly impacted by LLMs. However, LLMs could affect the work of administrative personnel and the provision of dental telemedicine. LLMs offer potential for clinical decision support, text summarization, efficient writing, and multilingual communication. As more people seek health information from LLMs, it is crucial to safeguard against inaccurate, outdated, and biased responses to health-related queries. LLMs pose challenges for patient data confidentiality and cybersecurity that must be tackled. In dental education, LLMs present fewer challenges than in other academic fields. LLMs can enhance academic writing fluency, but acceptable usage boundaries in science need to be established.
While LLMs such as ChatGPT may have various useful applications in dental medicine, they come with risks of malicious use and serious limitations, including the potential for misinformation.
Along with the potential benefits of using LLMs as an additional tool in dental medicine, it is crucial to carefully consider the limitations and potential risks inherent in such artificial intelligence technologies.
本文概述了 ChatGPT 和其他大型语言模型 (LLM) 对牙科医学的影响。
ChatGPT 是一种经过大量文本数据训练的 LLM，擅长完成各种语言相关任务。尽管 ChatGPT 功能强大，但它存在严重的局限性，例如偶尔会给出错误的答案、生成无意义的内容以及将错误信息作为事实呈现。牙科医生、助手和卫生员不太可能受到 LLM 的显著影响。然而，LLM 可能会影响行政人员的工作和牙科远程医疗的提供。LLM 为临床决策支持、文本摘要、高效写作和多语言交流提供了潜力。随着越来越多的人从 LLM 寻求健康信息，必须防止针对与健康相关的查询出现不准确、过时和有偏见的回复。LLM 对患者数据保密性和网络安全构成挑战，必须加以解决。在牙科教育中，LLM 带来的挑战比其他学术领域要少。LLM 可以提高学术写作的流畅性，但需要在科学中建立可接受的使用边界。
虽然 ChatGPT 等 LLM 可能在牙科医学中有各种有用的应用，但它们存在恶意使用的风险和严重的局限性，包括可能出现错误信息。
在将 LLM 作为牙科医学中额外工具的潜在益处的同时，必须仔细考虑此类人工智能技术固有的局限性和潜在风险。
