Google's MedPaLM emphasizes human clinicians in medical AI

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Most applications of artificial intelligence in medicine have failed to make use of language, broadly speaking, a fact that Google and its DeepMind unit addressed in a paper published in the prestigious science journal Nature on Monday. 

Their invention, MedPaLM, is a large language model like ChatGPT that is tuned to answer questions from a variety of medical datasets, including a brand new one invented by Google that represents questions consumers ask about health on the Internet. That dataset, HealthSearchQA, consists of "3,173 commonly searched consumer questions" that are "generated by a search engine," such as, "How serious is atrial fibrillation?"

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