Google AI Health Chatbot Successfully Passes U.S. Medical Exam
Google’s artificial intelligence-powered medical chatbot has achieved a passing grade on a tough US medical licensing exam.
Much has been made about the future possibilities— and dangers— of AI, health is one area where the technology had already shown tangible progress, with algorithms able to read certain medical scans as well as humans.
Google first unveiled its AI tool for answering medical questions, called Med-PaLM, in a preprint study in December. Unlike ChatGPT, it has not been released to the public.
The U.S. tech giant says Med-PaLM is the first large language model, an AI technique trained on vast amounts of human-produced text, to pass the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
A passing grade for the exam, which is taken by medical students and physicians-in-training in the United States, is around 60%.
Google researchers said that Med-PaLM had achieved 67.6% on USMLE-style multiple choice questions
“Med-PaLM performs encouragingly, but remains inferior to clinicians
To Know About Chandrayaan-3 Launch: ISRO's Lunar Mission