In a twist straight out of science fiction—and now straight into a surgical lab—a team of researchers has asked a bold question: Can artificial intelligence (AI) guide human hands through one of the most complex dissections in medicine? Spoiler alert: it kind of can.
Published in BMC Medical Education, a new study titled “A structured evaluation of large language model-generated instructions for cadaveric brachial plexus dissection” put large language models (LLMs)—yes, like ChatGPT—to the ultimate test: guiding senior surgical residents through the maze-like anatomy of the brachial plexus using only AI-generated step-by-step instructions.
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