News about artificial intelligence is followed with interest. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is also conducting a remarkable testing process regarding artificial intelligence. Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence tool designed to answer questions about medical information from Google, is said to have been tested at the Mayo Clinic research hospital and others since April.
Med-PaLM 2 is a variant of PaLM 2, Google’s language model that was announced at Google I/O in May of this year and forms the basis of Bard.
It is stated that Google believes the updated model could be useful, especially in countries where access to doctors is more limited.
Med-PaLM 2 is said to be trained on a select set of medical professional demonstrations that Google believes will enable it to be better at speaking health-related conversations compared to generalized chatbots like Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.
The Wall Street Journal reported that customers testing Med-PaLM 2 will check their data and the data will be encrypted, while Google will not be able to access it.
YET IN EARLY STAGES
Google senior research director Greg Corrado said Med-PaLM 2 is still in its early stages.