ChatGPT's (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) remarkable capacity to generate human-like output makes it an appealing learning tool for healthcare students worldwide. Nevertheless, the chatbot's responses may be subject to inaccuracies, putting forth an intense risk of misinformation. ChatGPT's capabilities should be examined in every corner of healthcare education, including dentistry and its specialties, to understand the potential of misinformation associated with the chatbot's use as a learning tool. Our investigation aims to explore ChatGPT's foundation of knowledge in the field of periodontology by evaluating the chatbot's performance on questions obtained from an in-service examination administered by the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP).

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人工智能在牙科教育中的应用：ChatGPT在牙周在职检查中的表现

ChatGPT（聊天生成预训练变压器）生成类人输出的卓越能力使其成为对全球医疗保健学生有吸引力的学习工具。然而，聊天机器人的反应可能会不准确，从而带来很大的错误信息风险。应在医疗保健教育的各个角落（包括牙科及其专业）检查 ChatGPT 的功能，以了解与聊天机器人用作学习工具相关的错误信息的可能性。我们的调查旨在通过评估聊天机器人对美国牙周病学会 (AAP) 管理的在职考试中获得的问题的表现，探索 ChatGPT 在牙周病学领域的知识基础。