A family almost let their dad sleep through a stroke, until ChatGPT told them to get help

There are plenty of grand ideas about what AI could eventually do for healthcare, whether discovering new drugs or acting as an interactive medical historian for everyone. But a viral Reddit post offers a better, and much simpler vision for AI doctoring. According to the poster, the family was eating dinner when their father repeatedly dropped his chopsticks. His right hand felt numb, his mouth looked slightly uneven, his speech sounded strange, and he briefly lost his balance. Then he seemed to improve, which was almost enough to convince everyone that he was simply tired and should sleep it off. After the writer shared the symptoms with ChatGPT, the AI responded that it sounded like a stroke or a related medical incident.