Will your next hospital visit involve talking to an AI chatbot? Google hopes so.
If a current Google test goes well, your next hospital visit might involve a little assistance from artificial intelligence (AI). According to recent reports, Google has been using its Med-PaLM-2 chatbot at the Mayo Clinic since April.
In a recent paper detailing work with the new AI, Google said that its Med-PaLM-2 chatbot had the ability to answer health-related questions and offer a diagnosis given symptoms. But the program can also do laborious tasks, such as summarizing a medical document or organizing patient data. In the future, Google hopes AI could even assist with analyzing an X-ray.
The chatbot is based on the company’s Med-PaLM-2 language model, which was announced just a few months ago.
