United Kingdom, Feb. 10 -- AI chatbots give inaccurate and inconsistent medical advice to users.

Research from the University of Oxford found that people using artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare guidance were given a mixture of good and bad responses, making it difficult to identify what advice they should trust.

Dr Rebecca Payne, lead medical practitioner on the study, argues that it could be "dangerous" for people to ask chatbots about their medical symptoms.

The researchers gave 1,300 people a scenario, such as suffering from a severe headache or being a new mother who felt constantly exhausted.

They were divided into two groups, with one using AI to help figure out what they might have and decide what to do next.

The exp...