Chinese Hospitals Begin Testing AI Assistant for Brain Surgeons

(Bloomberg) — China is testing an AI assistant for neurosurgeons at seven hospitals in Beijing and other cities in coming months, one of many initiatives the government is backing to try and harness the technology.

A Hong Kong-based agency under the Chinese Academy of Sciences — the country’s foremost state-backed scientific institute — on Monday introduced an AI model based on Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama 2.0, the open-source large language model. Researchers trained and fine-tuned the model with papers, medical journals and manuals to act as a surgery consultant of sorts for doctors, said Liu Hongbin, the center’s executive director.