<p>Google is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) programme to expertly answer questions about medical information, the media reported.</p>.<p>According to <em>The Verge</em>, Google's AI tool -- Med-PaLM 2 (a variant of PaLM 2), has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic (a non-profit organisation based in the US) research hospital, among others, since April.</p>.<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> first reported the news.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a data-ved="2ahUKEwiQ7anhwouAAxWJZmwGHU8cAFAQxfQBKAB6BAgHEAE" href="https://www.deccanherald.com/business/technology/google-bard-can-now-help-write-software-code-1211803.html">Google Bard can now help write software code</a></strong></p>.<p>PaLM 2 is the language model underpinning Google's Bard.</p>.<p>According to the report, the tech giant believes that its improved model will be especially useful in places with "more limited access to doctors".</p>.<p>Google believes Med-PaLM 2 will be better at healthcare conversations than generalised chatbots such as Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT because it was trained on a curated set of medical expert demonstrations.</p>.<p>Moreover, the report mentioned that the customers testing Med-PaLM 2 will control their data, which will be encrypted, and Google won't have access to it.</p>.<p>As per Google's senior research director Greg Corrado, Med-PaLM 2 is still in its early stages.</p>.<p>Corrado stated that, while he would not want it to be a part of his own family's "healthcare journey", he believes Med-PaLM 2 "takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold".</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Google has updated its privacy policy, stating that it can use publicly available data to help train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.</p>.<p>The tech giant changed the wording of its policy over the weekend and switched "AI models" for "language models".</p>
<p>Google is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) programme to expertly answer questions about medical information, the media reported.</p>.<p>According to <em>The Verge</em>, Google's AI tool -- Med-PaLM 2 (a variant of PaLM 2), has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic (a non-profit organisation based in the US) research hospital, among others, since April.</p>.<p>The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> first reported the news.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a data-ved="2ahUKEwiQ7anhwouAAxWJZmwGHU8cAFAQxfQBKAB6BAgHEAE" href="https://www.deccanherald.com/business/technology/google-bard-can-now-help-write-software-code-1211803.html">Google Bard can now help write software code</a></strong></p>.<p>PaLM 2 is the language model underpinning Google's Bard.</p>.<p>According to the report, the tech giant believes that its improved model will be especially useful in places with "more limited access to doctors".</p>.<p>Google believes Med-PaLM 2 will be better at healthcare conversations than generalised chatbots such as Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT because it was trained on a curated set of medical expert demonstrations.</p>.<p>Moreover, the report mentioned that the customers testing Med-PaLM 2 will control their data, which will be encrypted, and Google won't have access to it.</p>.<p>As per Google's senior research director Greg Corrado, Med-PaLM 2 is still in its early stages.</p>.<p>Corrado stated that, while he would not want it to be a part of his own family's "healthcare journey", he believes Med-PaLM 2 "takes the places in healthcare where AI can be beneficial and expands them by 10-fold".</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Google has updated its privacy policy, stating that it can use publicly available data to help train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.</p>.<p>The tech giant changed the wording of its policy over the weekend and switched "AI models" for "language models".</p>