Intelligence artificial it has entered the daily use of many professionals and it is a matter of time before it enters the health professions. Google, for its part, is making a lot of effort (as well as Microsoft) to provide a product that helps doctors and surgeons in their work. So it was born Google Med-PaLM 2, the chatbot for medical use which, reportedly, would be in the testing phase.
Google Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence tool for medical information, is currently being tested in the US
Google has developed Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to answer questions about medical information. This tool is currently being tested at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, since April, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Med-PaLM 2 is one variant of PaLM 2, which was announced at Google I/O in May of this year. PaLM 2 is the underlying language model google bard, another Google product. According to an internal email seen by the Wall Street JournalGoogle believes its updated model could be particularly useful in countries with more limited access to doctors. Med-PaLM 2 was trained on a curated set of demos from medical experts, which Google he believes they will make it better at healthcare conversations than generalized chatbots like Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.
Despite this, according to research published by Google in May, Med-PaLM 2 it still suffers from some common accuracy issues in large language models. In the study, physicians found more inaccuracies and irrelevant information in responses provided by Google's Med-PaLM and Med-PalM 2 than in those of other physicians.
However, in almost all other metrics, such as showing evidence of reasoning, consensus-supported responses, or showing no signs of misunderstanding, Med-PaLM 2 worked in much the same way as real doctors. The Wall Street Journal reports that customers testing the new medical service will be in control of their data, which will be encrypted, and Google will not have access to it.
Secondo Greg Corrado, Google's senior director of search, the service is still in its early stages. Corrado said that, although he wouldn't want it to be part of the health care pathway, believes that "take the places in healthcare where AI can be useful and expand them 10-fold".
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