Google trains Gemini via multi-turn RL for psychiatric intake, validated in 32-psychiatrist double-blind study

SRSchmidgall · x · 2026-10-31

Google researchers including SRSchmidgall and Valentin Lievin trained Gemini with multi-turn RL to conduct psychiatric intake interviews with simulated patients. In a double-blind study with 32 psychiatrists role-playing patients, simulation-based multi-turn RL measurably improved Gemini's structured text-based intake performance — a notable step for conversational AI in one of medicine's hardest specialties.

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