All the major tech companies in the world have established the fact that their goal is AI now. Keeping that spirit in mind, the tech giant has now introduced its latest product: Google Med-Gemini. This AI tool is specifically designed for medical applications. It will help medical practitioners with the issues that they deal with while providing others with healthcare. Let’s find out more about Med-Gemini.
Speaking about Med-Gemini, at its core lies its exceptional long-context processing. It can help analyse extensive health records and research papers. This can eventually be used to give the medics insights into the patient, their conditions, required care, and other necessary insights. This is something that the previous models lacked.
As I said, Med-Gemini offers long-context processing. Google has carefully fine-tuned it, letting it give precise and nuanced responses. Something that is pretty critical in the medical field, as each patient requires personalised care. This surely is a major advancement in the field of Medical AI.
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Med-Gemini is based on Gemini 1.0 and Gemini 1.5 LLM. You get enhanced text, image, and video outputs with it. Further, Google claims that Med-Gemini offers both accuracy and reliability in clinical reasoning tasks. It also allows for improved web search functionalities
Comparing it with previous models and other competitors, Med-Gemini got better scores during benchmark testing. It gave a rate of 91.1% on MedQA (USMLE).
For now, Med-Gemini is only available for beta testing and is not open for public use. However, whenever Google properly unveils it in the public domain, it is expecting to revolutionise patient care and medical research with Med-Gemini.
This does promise to reshape the healthcare industry, but how do you feel about it? Do you think incorporating AI in the healthcare field is a good idea? Let me know in the comments below.
