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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 13, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Google Trains Clinical AI Through Simulated Residency Instead of Exam Questions
Reinforcement learning against multi-turn simulated patient encounters targets diagnosis, management, communication, documentation and safety together, a step past the single-answer benchmarks that made medical AI look solved.
Medical language models have long scored well on multiple-choice licensing questions, which is a poor stand-in for actual patient care. The work now being circulated, described by the Telegram channel AI Post as training an AI through a sim…
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