Patients with rare diseases are increasingly using artificial intelligence tools to generate possible explanations for symptoms that have remained unexplained for years, and in a growing number of cases, those tools have pointed to the right answer.
What has not been established is how often that happens. The accounts circulating are individual successes reported by patients, families, and clinicians. No one has measured a success rate for patients using chatbots on their own, and the published research that does exist gives figures far more modest than the anecdotes suggest.
