In China AI Chatbot Will Advise Neurosurgeons
The medical chatbot CARES Copilot 1.0 will be tested in seven medical centers in Beijing. It was created by Hong Kong specialists who used the Llama 2.0 Meta Platforms language model in their development, and used 100 NVIDIA and Huawei accelerators for the hardware base.
According to the developers, about 100 computing accelerators were used as the hardware base for the chatbot, and this number was divided in approximately equal proportions between the Nvidia A100 and the Chinese Huawei Ascend 910B, which are considered close competitors. Chinese companies and institutions cannot obtain Nvidia A100-level accelerators under American sanctions, so they use Huawei developments as an alternative.
About a million medical records and scientific papers in the field of neurosurgery were used to train a specialized medical large language model. According to the creators, the neural network will help not only make a diagnosis more accurately, but also process data from diagnostic examinations, including primary information from MRI, ultrasound and CT. Images, audio recordings and text will also be tough for this system, which at a certain stage of development will even be able to give recommendations to doctors regarding the choice of the correct treatment tactics for the patient.
Government agencies are joining private Chinese firms in developing homegrown AI modeled after OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ TaiChu model was among the first series of services to receive approval for public deployment in August.
