“’The question is, again, what are the consequences of it?’ The answer, to him, rests in the stakes of making an error – and with healthcare, those stakes are serious.” The Verge’s Hayden Field interviews AI Health Director Michael Pencina, PhD, for an article that probes the implications of recent reports suggesting that a specialized medical large language model chatbot – Google’s Med-Gemini – may have hallucinated a nonexistent anatomical feature. The lapse, which made its way unrecognized into a preprint paper posted by Google, has raised concerns among AI researchers.
