Med-Gemini, Google’s New AI Powerhouse for Medicine
A Potential Life Savior or a Job Displacer?
Few industries are begging for disruption more than healthcare.
It accounts, on average, almost 10% of GDP and in some cases like the US actually above 17% (2022 and 2023 numbers respectively), all the while the overall sentiment toward healthcare systems continues to decline.
For a long time, AI has been portrayed as a viable solution to alleviate some of these problems, but with little to no substance to account for such claims.
All things considered, things could be about to change, as Google has announced Med-Gemini, a foundation model specifically fine-tuned for healthcare that sets new records across multiple tasks and sets a very high bar for what could soon be the reality of healthcare.
But is this a tool to substitute doctors or yet another weapon in their life-saving arsenal?
Let’s find out.
You are probably sick of AI newsletters talking about how this or that **just** happened. And these newsletters abound because coarsely talking about events and things that already took place is easy, but the value provided is limited and the hype exaggerated.
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