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Google Healthcare AI Model Med‑Gemini Allegedly Produces Non‑Existent 'Basilar Ganglia' Term in Published Output

May 6, 2024

Google’s healthcare AI solution, Med-Gemini, has reportedly made an error in its public launch materials, using the non-existent term 'basilar ganglia'. This mistake occurred in both a blog post and an arXiv preprint. Initially, Google edited the blog without acknowledgment, later attributing it to a typo.

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