{"id":232280,"date":"2026-02-28T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/what-can-50-year-old-chatbots-teach-us-about-clinical-applications-of-ai"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:06:14","slug":"what-can-50-year-old-chatbots-teach-us-about-clinical-applications-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/what-can-50-year-old-chatbots-teach-us-about-clinical-applications-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"What Can 50-Year-Old Chatbots Teach Us About Clinical Applications of AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-can-50-year-old-chatbots-teach-us-about-clinical-applications-of-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can a large language model (LLM) provide insights on the history of chatbots and their clinical applications? \ud83e\udd16<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of JAMA+ AI Conversations, JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, interviews OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT (GPT-4o, voice mode) about the development and legacy of the first clinical chatbots, ELIZA and PARRY.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion explores differing perspectives of their creators, as well as how foundational debates about technology and ethics continue to inform the present landscape of AI in mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7 Listen now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, conducted an interview with ChatGPT about the history of chatbots and their clinical applications, for JAMA+ AI Conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a large language model (LLM) provide insights on the history of chatbots and their clinical applications? \ud83e\udd16 In this episode of JAMA+ AI Conversations, JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, interviews OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT (GPT-4o, voice mode) about the development and legacy of the first clinical chatbots, ELIZA and PARRY. The discussion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}