A commentary on ‘ChatGPT in medicine: prospects and challenges: a review article’ – correspondence

In this Digital Epoch of Medicine, a plethora of papers exploring diverse applications and challenges of ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a generative arti fi cial intelligence (AI) chatbot from OpenAI, have been published. In this milieu, Tan et al . [1] published an article in this journal about the prospects and constraints of espousing ChatGPT in medicine. The authors have comprehensively reviewed the potential use of ChatGPT for diverse medical applications, including the transformation of consultation support for patients, simplifying clinical assessment and work fl ow management, providing medical education and training, and facilitating clinical research. Besides, constraints in deploying ChatGPT that are pertinent to legal, ethical, and technical aspects were also discussed [1] . However, various potentially commendable and challenging facets of ChatGPT ’ s deployment in the medical fi eld have been overlooked. In this communication, we have discussed the utility of ChatGPT in assessing drug interaction, drug discovery and development, evaluating scienti fi c transparency, mitigating infodemic, handling multimodal data, and non-inclination to racial and ethnic disparity. Furthermore, concerns regarding over-reliance on ChatGPT and its inappropriate responses to general public inquiries were also discussed.