Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks | TechCrunch
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Hugging Face has introduced Open Medical-LLM, a benchmark for evaluating generative AI models in healthcare. This initiative, developed with Open Life Science AI and the University of Edinburgh, amalgamates various existing test sets to assess AI performance on medical tasks, aiming to improve patient care by identifying models' strengths and weaknesses. While the benchmark is positioned as a robust tool, experts emphasize the significant difference between test environments and actual clinical settings, suggesting that these AI models should complement, not replace, medical professionals in practice.