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Jul 9, 2023

Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals

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The Mayo Clinic has reportedly been testing the system since April.

Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, since April, The Wall Street Journal.

WSJ reports that an internal email it saw said Google believes its updated model can be particularly helpful in countries with “more limited access to doctors.” Med-PaLM 2 was trained on a curated set of medical expert demonstrations, which Google believes will make it… More.


Google says doctors prefer its answers, even if they’re less accurate.

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