Technology is being integrated into almost all industries. The healthcare industry in particular has been quick to embrace new technological advancements like AR/VR, IoT, etc. One example of this is when Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset was used in a surgical procedure.
Now, it seems like it is AI’s turn. The competition for tailored AI medical models is intensifying. On Monday, a paper describing Med-Gemini, a collection of sophisticated AI models aimed at healthcare applications, was released by Google and DeepMind. According to the authors, Med-Gemini is outperforming rival models like OpenAI’s GPT-4.
Gemini 1.0 and Gemini 1.5 LLM serve as the foundation for the Med-Gemini AI models. The Med-Gemini-S 1.0, Med-Gemini-M 1.0, Med-Gemini-L 1.0, and Med-Gemini-M 1.5 are the four models in total. All of the models have multiple output formats, including text, image, and video. The company states that the models have been improved by self-training, making them “more factually accurate, reliable, and nuanced” when displaying outcomes for complicated clinical reasoning tasks. The models are also integrated with web search.
When it comes to Med-Gemini, its impressive long-context processing is the focus. Eventually, the medics can use this to gain knowledge about the patient, their conditions, the care they need, and other relevant information. Because of its meticulous tuning, Google is now able to provide accurate and insightful answers. In the medical field, this is very important because every patient needs to receive personalized treatment.
The long-context processing enables the chatbot to respond with greater precision and accuracy even in situations where the questions are not perfectly asked or when it needs to process lengthy medical record documents.
Google has released data showing that Med-Gemini AI models have performed better on text-based reasoning tasks in the GeneTuring dataset than OpenAI’s GPT-4 models. Also, Med-Gemini-L 1.0 outperformed its own older model, Med-PaLM 2, by 4.5 percent, with an accuracy score of 91.1 percent on MedQA (USMLE). Notably, neither beta testing nor public access is offered for the AI model. Before making the model available to the public, the company will likely make more improvements to it.
But OpenAI’s GPT-4 is keeping up in the medical field. It recently increased the scope of its partnership with Moderna, a major pharmaceutical company.
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