Baidu's Melody: AI-Powered Conversational Bot for Doctors and Patients - Baidu Research

Baidu has launched Melody, an AI-powered conversational bot designed to provide relevant information to doctors to assist with recommendations and treatment options. Melody incorporates advanced deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) technologies developed by Baidu. Melody integrates with Baidu Doctor, an app that Baidu launched in China in 2015. Andrew Ng, chief scientist, Baidu, said: "Melody is designed to help both doctors and patients. By focusing on the medical-assistant vertical, we've built a conversational bot that can give highly-customized and situation-appropriate responses to a patient's query."