Elon Musk is urging people to submit their medical scans to Grok for analysis, but doctors advise using caution when relying on artificial intelligence for health care insights.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted on X on Tuesday, encouraging his followers to submit X-rays, PET scans, MRIs or other medical images to the AI chatbot.
“This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely good,” Musk wrote.
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The X owner also asked people to report back on “where Grok gets it right or needs work.”
Musk launched Grok, a product of his company xAI, in 2023.
The most recent version of the generative AI chatbot is described as a “frontier language model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities.”
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Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and Fox News’ senior medical analyst, responded to the Musk post in an …