Google's new AI tool can answer your medical questions like a trained professional

Image credit : NPR As artificial intelligence technology has been evolving swiftly across many industries, Google is an essential player in pushing the boundaries of innovation. The beta release of Bard, a superb language model that can generate original content and provide conversational responses, makes it appear like Google's AI capabilities are just getting started. Building on the success of Bard, the business has now unveiled Med-PaLM 2, an intelligent medical chatbot that has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Google's new AI tool goes above and beyond these skills by focusing entirely on medicine. Bard has previously demonstrated its ability to understand informal language and handle math and coding problems. The AI-powered chatbot Med-PaLM 2 is designed to respond to your medical inquiries as if you were speaking with a qualified physician. [caption id="attachment_186774" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Image credit : Digital Health[/caption] The Mayo Clinic, among other institutions, reportedly started substantial real-world testing of Med-PaLM 2 in April, underlining its potential impact on the healthcare sector, according to The Wall Street Journal (via The Verge). The program will be used to parse vast volumes of health data and summarize documents in addition to providing medical answers. In terms of data collection, Google has made sure that users testing Med-PaLM 2, like the Mayo Clinic, would retain full control over their data and that Google won't have access to it. Future versions of the AI utility may be deployable by healthcare organizations, although that is not currently achievable. The scalability of Med-PaLM 2 will be heavily influenced by the precision of the responses and medical advice. Greg Corrado, a Google employee who worked on Med-PaLM 2, expressed concerns as well:  "I don't feel that this kind of technology is yet at a place where I would want it in my family's healthcare journey." [caption id="attachment_186775" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Image credit : Business Today[/caption] However, Google aims to use carefully screened sets of medical expert demonstrations to ensure the dependability and correctness of the data generated by Med-PaLM 2. In response to issues with its initial generation of Med-PaLM, Google released Med-PaLM 2, an improved version that corrected those issues. Utilizing improvements from its basic language model (PaLM 2) and trained on a database of questions and answers from medical licensure tests, Med-PaLM 2 broke new ground by outperforming Med-PaLM by over 19% and reaching a score of up to 86.5% on the MedQA dataset. Other important datasets including MedMCQA, PubMedQA, and MMLU clinical themes also display the same outstanding performance. Also read : The UN holds world’s first humanoid AI robot press conference Accessibility, accuracy, and patient outcomes can all be enhanced by integrating AI chatbots like Med-PaLM 2 into the healthcare ecosystem. Med-PaLM 2 could fill the gap in healthcare services, especially in poor areas, despite potential ethical problems with AI. It does this by producing answers that would normally require access to a doctor.