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

Abstract

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.