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Six ways large language models are changing healthcare

Nature Medicine volume 29, pages 2969–2971 (2023)Cite this article

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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