AI assistants entering healthcare are generating friction rather than relief in doctor-patient relationships, according to a new commentary. The core gap identified is the absence of effective multi-turn follow-up questioning — the iterative probing that human clinicians use to narrow diagnoses. Until general-purpose AI masters this conversational depth, it cannot reliably meet the threshold required for real medical utility.
Google DeepMind has announced that its latest-generation model, Gemini 2.5, has achieved new breakthroughs in AI-driven audio dialog and audio generation. This…