Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool made to respond to inquiries regarding medical information, has been tested in the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, according to The Wall Street Journal.
PaLM 2, which was unveiled at Google I/O in May of this year, has a variation called Med-PaLM 2. The language model supporting Google’s Bard is PaLM 2.
Med-PaLM 2 was trained on a selected collection of demos from medical experts, which, according to Google, will make it more adept at engaging in healthcare-related conversations than chatbots like Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.
Customers testing Med-PaLM 2 will have control over their encrypted data, according to the WSJ, and Google won’t have access to it.
According to Greg Corrado, senior research director at Google, Med-PaLM 2 is still in development. Despite not wanting it to be a part of his own family’s “healthcare journey,” Corrado said he thinks Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold.”
