NBC Today News reports that a boy had a chronic pain condition and had been checked by 17 doctors, and none had diagnosed the cause of the boys pain. But a ChatGPT said to have correctly diagnosed the disease.

The boy’s mom the Today “We saw so many doctors. We ended up in the ER at one point. I kept pushing. I really spent the night on the (computer) … going through all these things. So, when ChatGPT suggested a diagnosis of tethered cord syndrome, ‘it made a lot of sense’.”

Dr. Holly Gilmer, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Michigan Head & Spine Institute, who treated Alex, told TODAY.com “With tethered cord syndrome, the spinal cord is stuck to something. It could be a tumor in the spinal canal. It could be a bump on a spike of bones. It could just be too much fat at the end of the spinal cord. The abnormality can’t elongate … and it pulls.”

“We detach the cord from where it is stuck at the bottom of the tailbone essentially. That releases the tension,” Gilmer added.