As artificial intelligence advances, the technology is increasingly being introduced into our daily lives. Now, China is testing the deployment of “AI doctors” in a hospital fully dedicated to this service.
The technology, developed by the Institute of AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University, includes 42 AI doctors covering 21 departments in what has been named the “Agent Hospital“.
The details were shared in a blog post by AIR last year, which also explained that the doctors, nurses, and patients are powered by a large language model (LLM).
This allows them to autonomously generate communication and simulate “a closed-loop process covering the pre-hospital, in-hospital, and post-hospital stages, including disease onset, triage, registration, consultation, examination, diagnosis, prescription, rehabilitation, and follow-up.”
By analyzing medical literature and making decisions about patient treatment, the AI doctors aim to refine and improve their skills through experience.
In just a few days, the AI doctors treated more than 10,000 patients—something that would take a human doctor at least two years.
Furthermore, using a MedQA dataset covering major respiratory diseases, the virtual doctors achieved an accuracy rate of 93.06%, according to researchers.
The findings suggest the AI hospital is on the verge of transforming how doctors diagnose and treat patients, said Liu Yan, chief researcher of the Agent Hospital at Tsinghua University, to the Global Times.
It’s worth noting that researchers must comply with strict national medical regulations and ensure technological maturity. However, Yan emphasized that the team is working to refine the technology, which is nearly ready for practical application.
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