Potential Benefits and Perils of Incorporating ChatGPT to the Movement Disorders Clinic.

Abstract

ChatGPT (chat.openai.com; Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence (AI) language model created by the AI lab OpenAI (OpenAI Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA) that can generate contextually relevant text on many subjects. ChatGPT understands and answers to natural language input and is trained on massive amounts of text data, including books, articles, and websites.1 Several versions of this Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) have been released (the latest iteration, GPT-4, became public mid-March 2023), and it is now one of the largest language models ever devised. Given its versatility and speed, reports of the application of ChatGPT in healthcare have risen steeply in 2023,2-9 and the fields of neurology10 and movement disorders are not excluded from this revolution.11 In this viewpoint, the potential benefits and shortcomings of integrating ChatGPT to the movement disorders clinic will be discussed, as well as possible future directions.