Google’s Med-PaLM, an AI Answer questions with this tool medical Information has been provided to you. in Testing at Mayo Clinic Research Hospital, among other places, has been ongoing since April. The Wall Street Journal Med-PaLM 2 was reported to have been this morning. Med-PaLM 2 is PaLM 2 was announced by Google at I/O. in This year, May is a good time to start planning. PaLM 2 is The language model that underpins Google’s Bard.
This paper mentions a number of other topics research Google made public in May (pdf) showing that Med-PaLM 2 still suffers from some of the accuracy issues we’re already See with your own eyes in large language models. Physicians found more inaccurate information and misleading data in the study. in Answers provided by Google’s Other doctors’ Med-PalM and MedPalM2 are not as good.
Still, in Med-PaLM2 performed better or worse than doctors in nearly every other measure, whether it was showing evidence for reasoning, giving answers supported by consensus or displaying no indication of incorrect comprehension.
WSJ reports customers testing Med-PaLM 2 will control their data, which will be encrypted, and Google won’t have access to it.
Google’s senior director of research Greg Corrado. WSJ says, Med-PaLM 2 is still in it is in the early stages. Corrado said that while he wouldn’t want it to be a part of his own family’s “healthcare journey,” He believes Med-PaLM 2. “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold.”
We’ve reached out to Google and Mayo Clinic for more information.
