ChatGPT > phone interpreters

[Gfunk6]

Nobody from hospital admin or med mal carriers will admit this, but it’s true. How many more times to I have to hear “ . . . interpreter requires repetition?”

Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Mandarin - it doesn’t matter - ChatGPT rules all. Now I see my patients nodding in understanding instead of having a shocked, befuddled expression because of human mis-translation.

This has honestly been one of the best AI innovations in modern medicine.

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[RadOncMegatron]

I agree, but do you know of any legal liability of this?

 

[Pointless]

Who would sue over something like this?

Also, how do you specifically use chatGPT for translation? Just open it on your phone and tell it to translate what it hears into whatever language?

 

[Palex80]

Who would sue over something like this?

Ask Chat-GPT! 🙂

 

[Gfunk6]

1. Download ChatGPT app
2. Sign up for an account which is free
3. In the bottom right corner there is an icon with three bars. If you hit it, it will enter voice recognition mode. Just say I need English to whatever other language interpretation. It will do so in real time. As with an interpreter, it is better to speak in clear and short phrases.

 

[Gfunk6]

I agree, but do you know of any legal liability of this?

If you have to ask that question, then you already know the answer 😀

 

[medgator]

Google translate with text to speech?

1. Download ChatGPT app
2. Sign up for an account which is free
3. In the bottom right corner there is an icon with three bars. If you hit it, it will enter voice recognition mode. Just say I need English to whatever other language interpretation. It will do so in real time. As with an interpreter, it is better to speak in clear and short phrases.

Google translate does the same I think? I've been using that. Any advantage to chatgpt?

 

[Neuronix]

Google translate with text to speech?

Google translate does the same I think? I've been using that. Any advantage to chatgpt?

This is much better. I speak Spanish also, so I'm comparing English<->Spanish.

The ChatGPT bot translates between the languages more naturally than the broken way that Google Translate does it. Google Translate does these word for word translations, and as such you can easily tell that it's a computer translation because the phrasing and word choice are not natural. The ChatGPT bot translates it more like how a native speaker would translate it, within certain limitations like Spanish has a lot of differences across Spanish speaking countries (more than English). The voice is also fairly natural instead of the robotic way that Google Translate "speaks". ChatGPT almost seems like you're speaking to a person instead of a computer.

I am also impressed that ChatGPT detects things that shouldn't be translated. For example, when the translated word doesn't make sense as translated in the other language or detecting people's names that can have a meaning in the other language.

Our institution is running a pilot program of some AI app to use as a scribe. You leave an app open on your phone during the visit and it picks up your conversation and the patient's conversation, and it will apparently build a note. I haven't tried it myself.