DeepSeek to Integrate AI in Chinese Hospitals

The Chinese initiative DeepSeek has commenced hiring interns to label medical data, aiming to enhance the application of artificial intelligence in hospitals. This was reported by SCMP, citing the employment website Boss Zhipin.

According to the job listings, the company offers 500 yuan ($70) per day for individuals who will label medical data, including “advanced auxiliary diagnostics,” four days a week. The work is based in Beijing.

Candidates must be in their fourth year at a medical institution or hold a master’s degree. They also need experience with large language models, proficiency in Python coding, and the ability to create prompts for AI models.

This move is linked to the use of DeepSeek’s AI models by Chinese hospitals for diagnosing and prescribing. As of March, at least 300 medical institutions in the country had begun using the company’s technology for clinical diagnostics and decision support.

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

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

Back in May, the Chinese startup DeepSeek updated its reasoning model R1. Its “distilled” version is capable of operating on a single graphics card.