This Hospital in Beijing to Introduce AI Doctors Next Year

The "AI Hospital" system, developed by the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University, has been conducting intensive training sessions recently for artificial intelligence (AI) doctors. Professionals have been testing and training their disease diagnosis capabilities. It is reported that by the first half of 2025, 21 departments with 42 AI doctors will provide online consultations at the "AI Hospital".

In the beta version of the "AI Hospital" system, 42 AI doctors work in pairs across 21 departments such as pediatrics, otorhinolaryngology, respiratory medicine, and dermatology. Patients coming for consultations are also AI-simulated ones. Currently, these AI doctors can conduct high-quality diagnostic analyses for over 300 common and major diseases.

These AI doctors are continuously evolving through ongoing training. The "AI Hospital" system has already created over 500,000 AI-simulated patients that represent different countries and regions, various age groups, and diverse diseases. These cases are automatically generated by large AI models using authoritative medical knowledge bases and a small number of publicly available cases.

Thanks to AI, the training cycle for AI doctors is much shorter than that of human doctors. AI doctors can grow much faster, gaining diagnostic experiences involving thousands of patients in the virtual world in just a few days.

(Source: Beijing Daily)