Google Tests AI Medical Chatbot With Mayo Clinic

Google is testing an AI chatbot called Med-PaLM 2, which is trained on medical licensing exams and expert demonstrations, at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals.
Med-PaLM 2 can answer health questions, summarize information, and organize research data, though it also showed some accuracy issues in testing.
Microsoft is developing similar medical AI chat technology based on OpenAI's ChatGPT and partnering with Epic.
While AI was preferred to real doctors in a study, concerns remain over reliability, compassion, and ethical use.
Google and Microsoft aim to develop virtual assistants for healthcare as Google catches up to Microsoft's partnerships using OpenAI tech.