{"id":499511,"date":"2023-07-10T12:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=499511"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:09:53","slug":"google-testing-medical-ai-chatbot-in-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/499511-google-testing-medical-ai-chatbot-in-hospitals.html","title":{"rendered":"Google testing medical AI chatbot in hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s Med-PaLM 2 is a large language model (LLM) designed to answer medical questions, and it has been in testing at several hospitals since April 2023, the Wall Street Journal reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The tech giant launched Med-PaLM 2 at its I\/O event in May 2023, and it is a variant of Google’s PaLM 2 \u2014 the LLM powering Google Bard.<\/p>\n

Google trained Med-PaLM 2 on a specific set of medical demonstrations, which the company said will make it better at providing medical information than generalised alternatives like Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

According to the Wall Street Journal, an internal email revealed that Google believes Med-PaLM 2 can be particularly helpful in countries with “more limited access to doctors.”<\/p>\n

It also mentioned research<\/a><\/strong> that Google made public in May 2023, highlighting some of the inaccuracy issues plaguing Med-PaLM 2.<\/p>\n

The study revealed that physicians noted more inaccuracies and irrelevant information in answers provided by Google’s Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2 than those provided by other doctors.<\/p>\n

However, every other metric showed that Med-PaLM 2 performed almost equivalently to the other doctors.<\/p>\n

Customers testing Med-PaLM 2 will control their data, which is encrypted and won’t be accessible to Google.<\/p>\n

Google’s senior research director Greg Corrado told the Wall Street Journal that Med-PaLM 2 is still in the early stages, adding that he wouldn’t want it to be a part of his own family’s healthcare journey.<\/p>\n

However, Corrado believes Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold”.<\/p>\n

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Now read: South African lawyers use ChatGPT to argue case \u2014 get nailed after it makes up fake info<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google launched the medicine-orientated large language model at its I\/O event in May 2023, but it has been in testing at hospitals since April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":499515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11941,84125,167,87735],"class_list":["post-499511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bard","tag-google","tag-med-palm-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499553,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499511\/revisions\/499553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}