DeepSeek to Bring AI to China's Hospitals

Chinese project DeepSeek has begun hiring interns to label medical data in an effort to improve the use of artificial intelligence in hospitals, SCMP reports, citing job board Boss Zhipin.

According to job postings, the company is offering 500 yuan ($70) a day for people to label medical data, including “advanced diagnostic support,” four days a week. The work must be done in Beijing. 

Candidates must be in their fourth year of medical school or have a master's degree. They must also have experience working with large language models, be able to write Python code, and write prompts for AI models. 

The move comes as Chinese hospitals are using DeepSeek’s AI models to make diagnoses and write prescriptions. As of March, at least 300 medical institutions in the country had begun using the firm’s technology for clinical diagnostics and decision support. 

In May, a group of researchers warned that AI poses security and privacy risks. DeepSeek’s tendency to generate “plausible but factually incorrect results” could lead to “significant clinical risk,” the researchers said. 

The job description says interns will help improve the knowledge of AI models and minimize hallucinations in medical questions and answers. 

Let us recall that in May, the Chinese startup DeepSeek updated the R1 reasoning model. Its “distilled” version is capable of working on one video card.