Chinese hospitals to introduce artificial intelligence systems

Chinese company DeepSeek has started recruiting interns to work on improving its AI model used in healthcare. According to SCMP, applicants must label medical data in Beijing four days a week. The company offers 500 yuan per day (about $70) for the work.

The vacancy is aimed at final-year medical students and holders of a Master’s degree. In addition to medical knowledge, the applicant should have Python programming skills and be able to formulate queries for large language models.

As of March, DeepSeek’s technology is used in more than 300 Chinese hospitals. AI helps with diagnoses and prescriptions, speeding up clinical decision-making. However, in May, a group of researchers raised a concern: the conclusions generated by the system may be implausibly accurate but contain errors, putting patients at risk.

The company notes that the goal of the internship is to reduce the frequency of the model’s “hallucinations” in medical scenarios. The project participants will improve the AI knowledge base through quality data markup.

Earlier in May, DeepSeek unveiled its new R1 reasoning model, simplifying its runtime to a single GPU through distillation.