Artificial Intelligence in Sports Medicine: Could GPT-4 Make Human Doctors Obsolete?

Sports medicine, an essential branch of orthopedics, focuses on preserving, restoring, improving, and rebuilding the function of the human motor system. As a thriving interdisciplinary field, sports medicine attracts not only the interest of the orthopedic community, but also artificial intelligence (AI). In this study, our team summarized the potential applications of GPT-4 in sports medicine including diagnostic imaging, exercise prescription, medical supervision, surgery treatment, sports nutrition, and science research. In our opinion, it is impossible that GPT-4 could make sports physicians obsolete. Instead, it could become an indispensable scientific assistant for sport doctors in future.

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Sports medicine, a vital part of orthopedics, aims to preserve, restore, improve, and rebuild the human motor system. This interdisciplinary field has attracted the interest of both the orthopedic community and artificial intelligence (AI). In this study, the potential applications of GPT-4 in sports medicine, including diagnostic imaging, exercise prescription, medical supervision, surgery treatment, sports nutrition, and science research, were summarized. Our opinion is that GPT-4 is unlikely to render sports physicians obsolete, but instead, it could become an indispensable scientific assistant for them in the future.