Google Launches AI Tool for Medical Experts

Google has unveiled a groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool designed to act as a virtual collaborator for medical professionals. This innovative AI aims to assist medicinal experts by providing advanced data analysis, insights, and recommendations, thereby enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of medical research and patient care.

The U.S. blue-chip company announced this development on Wednesday, highlighting the potential of the new AI tool to revolutionise the healthcare industry.

Tested by scientists at Stanford University in the U.S. and Imperial College London, the new tool uses advanced reasoning to assist scientists in synthesising vast amounts of literature and generating novel hypotheses.

AI is increasingly incorporated in different areas, from answering calls to carrying out legal research, following the success of ChatGPT and similar models over the past year.

Google’s AI unit, DeepMind, has made science a priority, and DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis was a co-recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year for the technology developed in the AI unit.

In an experiment on liver fibrosis, Google explained that all the approaches suggested by its new AI co-scientist showed promising activity and potential to inhibit causes of disease.

“While this is a preliminary finding requiring further validation, it suggests a promising avenue for capable AI systems… to augment and accelerate the work of expert scientists,” it said.

According to the project’s scientists, it will enhance research rather than take the place of it.

“We expect that it will… increase, rather than decrease scientific collaboration,” Google scientist Vivek Natarajan said.

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