Generative artificial intelligence in lymphoedema care

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a type of AI that can create new content, such as text, images or music. Generative AI may revolutionise healthcare communication through changing the way that health education is delivered to both patients and health practitioners. Chatbots, as one implementation example of generative AI, interact with users via text-or voice-based conversations and employ natural language-processing techniques to comprehend and interpret user inputs and generate suitable responses. This article provides an overview of generative AI and explores the characteristics of two brands of chatbot systems, ChatGPT and Bard. Potential future research directions are described for lymphoedema care.