Dr. ChatGPT: Large language models in everyday clinical practice

With the public availability of ChatGPT 3.5 in fall 2022 at the latest, artificial intelligence in the sense of large language models (LLMs) is on everyone’s lips. However, it is often forgotten that this is only the provisional end point of decades of development of artificial intelligence, which, despite its great potential, still has many limitations. The question for practising doctors is how this technology can be used sensibly in everyday clinical practice – and how it should not be used.