Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been tested at Mayo Clinic Research Hospital, among others, since April, The Wall Street Journal I mentioned this morning. Med-PaLM 2 is the variant of PaLM 2, which was announced at Google I/O in May of this year. PaLM 2 is the language model on which Google Bard is based.
Remember the paper too Google Search was released to the public in May (pdf) shows that Med-PaLM 2 still has some accuracy issues that we are already used to seeing in large language models. In the study, physicians found more inaccuracies and irrelevant information in answers provided by Google’s Med-PaLM and Med-PalM 2 than other physicians.
However, on almost every other measure, such as showing evidence of reasoning, consensus-supported answers, or showing no sign of misunderstanding, Med-PaLM 2 outperformed the actual clinicians.
Wall Street Journal Reports Customers who test Med-PaLM 2 will have control over their data, which will be encrypted, and Google will not have access to it.
According to Google’s Director of Research, Greg Corrado, Wall Street Journal He says, Med-PaLM 2 is still in its infancy. Corrado said that while he doesn’t want to be part of his family’s “healthcare journey,” he believes Med-PaLM 2 “takes the places in healthcare where AI can be useful and expands them tenfold.”
We’ve reached out to Google and the Mayo Clinic for more information.
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