Clinical reasoning and artificial intelligence: Can AI really think?

Clinical reasoning and artificial intelligence: Can AI really think?
Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association; Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD; 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of ChatGPT ... holds great promise for more routine medical tasks, may broaden one’s differential diagnosis, and may be able to assist in the evaluation of images, such as radiographs and electrocardiograms, the technology is largely based on advanced algorithms akin to pattern recognition. One of the key questions raised in concert with these advances is: What does the growth of artificial intelligence mean for medical education, particularly the development of critical thinking and clinical reasoning? AI will clearly affect medicine in the years to come and will change the ways in which doctors work. It will also make the ability to reason, to think, to analyze problems, and to know how best to apply principles of human biology at the bedside more important.