The famous “Google Doctor” says AI will improve your health search

Over the past year, Google He expanded his general descriptions of AI in the search results, offering answers compiled with generative links instead of a list of links. The goal, as expected, is to make information directly accessible, helping you save time by clicking on each link separately and deciding your merit for yourself. Now Google, it seems, believe that these resumes can also help you better with your medical consultations.

In his annual healthcare event, Google announced several ways to improve your products, how you will find information on health related topics. In particular, the company said that at present it is expanding the general descriptions of AI in the search results “for covering thousands of health problems”, in addition to the basics, such as flu. These results also expand to other languages ​​in addition to the English language, including Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, for consultations held on mobile devices.

In addition, Google brings another function entitled “What People offer”, which collects personal advice from forums and public platforms, such as Quore or Reddit, for medical searches. This will be limited by consultations on mobile devices and will be available only for users in the USA.

It is very important to emphasize that the general descriptions of Google, like any other generative product, are subject to incorrect answers called hallucinations and should not be used as the only source of information.

Using AI to help medical research

In addition to these improvements in the search, Google also launched its API of medical records as part of its Health Connect platform. This will allow medical records stored in a specific format, to be used in several applications for health and physical condition on their devices AndroidField

Although it is possible that the search results do not completely replace solid medical consultations, Google expands access to several light models of the Gemma models. Google taught these specific models to help researchers help in the rapid detection of drugs, offering existing knowledge about the influence of certain molecules.

In addition, Google is also tested by an artificial intelligence tool called Capricorn, which can help doctors, in particular, for pediatric oncologists, to offer personalized treatment for young patients with cancer in a hospital in the Netherlands.