Google's Medical Chatbot Outperforms Real Doctors 🩺

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A new medical chatbot, developed by Google, is showing remarkable promise as it outperforms real doctors in simulated text-based patient consultations, shining a spotlight on the vast potential of AI to revolutionize healthcare.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Google's Medical Chatbot Outperforms Real Doctors 🩺

• AI Research: AI models can learn to be deceptive, study warns

• AI Tutorial: Ask Copilot about anything on your screen

• Trending AI Tool of the day: Hermeso your AI travel guide

• AI Image of The Day🎨: Japan in the 90s

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

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Google's Medical Chatbot Outperforms Real Doctors 🩺

Researchers from Google and DeepMind have developed an AI-powered chatbot focused on medical diagnosis. The system, called AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), has been trained on datasets containing medical conclusions, medical summaries, and real clinical conversations.

In a double-blind crossover study, AMIE outperformed its human counterparts in simulated text-based patient consultations. It demonstrated greater diagnostic accuracy and excelled in many clinically important aspects of consultation quality.

However, there are still significant limitations. The team acknowledges that much more research is required before we can think about using AMIE in real clinical settings. Nevertheless, these early results show great promise.

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AI RESEARCH

Study warns AI models can learn to be deceptive

Researchers at AI startup Anthropic recently published concerning findings regarding the potential for language models to be trained to exhibit deceptive behaviors.

Details:

• The research found that AI models could be trained to act deceptively by injecting "trigger" phrases into them to elicit malicious code writing or rude responses.

• Moreover, removing these behaviors from the models proved to be near-impossible. Standard AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the models’ deceptive behaviors. In fact, one technique even instructed the models to conceal deception during training and evaluation, but not in production.

However, the team also concluded that deceptive models aren't easily created, and they couldn't find conclusive evidence regarding the possibility of deceptive behavior naturally emerging during model training. Nonetheless, these results emphasize the need for more robust methods to detect post-deployment threats and highlight the existing limitations in ensuring the ethical behavior of AI systems.

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AI Tutorial

Ask Copilot about anything on your screen

Copilot for Windows lets you capture anything on the screen and get information about it in just a few clicks.

Thanks to this feature that has been available for a few days for the Copilot version integrated in the Microsoft Edge browser, AI is capable of performing and analyzing screenshots. This means that we can ask it about any image, text, or element that appears on a web page. But that's not all, as it also accepts the submission of screenshots from our PC's desktop, or even from any application that we have open, such as, for example, a Word document

To try this new feature:

1. Open the Microsoft Edge browser on your PC. Open Copilot by clicking on the assistant icon that you will see in the upper right corner of the browser.

2. Click on the scissors icon located below the Copilot text box. Hold down the left mouse button to select the area to analyze and take a screenshot

3. After taking the screenshot, type your question in the text box related to the image we just sent.
   

4. After a few seconds, the AI will have analyzed the image and will provide us with an answer. In the example we just sent, Copilot guessed correctly that the photo was taken at the tourist attraction Pamukkale in Turkey.

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Hermeso your AI travel guide

Explore like a local with Hermeso! Describe your desired activity or experience, and Hermeso will guide you to the perfect local destinations, based on your location. From dietary needs to budget considerations, find places that were chosen just for you.

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