Google built an AI that can answer medical questions. But it’s nowhere near as good as a human doctor, and the company says it can’t yet be safely performed in the real world.
technology
January 20, 2023
Google’s medical AI can answer common medical questions typed into search engines. Africa Studio/Shutterstock
Google has built the best artificial intelligence ever to answer medical questions. Med-PaLM AI is able to answer multiple-choice questions on medical license exams and general health questions in search engines with greater accuracy than any AI to date, almost like a human doctor. increase.
Google’s Alan Karthikesalingam and his colleagues first started using an AI developed by the company called PaLM. This AI was trained on different types of text, including online documents, books, and Wikipedia.