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Day 23 Building GoDavaii: Why Language Barriers Aren't Just Translation Problems in Health AI

DEV Community·GoDavaii - Advanced Health AI·20 days ago
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GPT-4's Hindi output is barely functional for nuanced medical queries. Ask any native speaker. That's a problem, especially when a child's medicine dosage depends on cultural context, not just direct translation. I'm Pururva Agarwal, founder of GoDavaii, and on Day 23 of our public sprint, I'm thinking about the hidden complexities that make health AI for India fundamentally different. My cousin's newborn had a persistent cough. The local pharmacy provided a cough syrup. What wasn't immediately obvious, and wasn't flagged, was that it was an adult formulation. This wasn't a malicious error, but a system gap - a lack of a universal 'second pair of eyes' that could account for age, context, and language. It's this blend of individual context and systemic oversight that drives GoDavaii. We're building India's Advanced Health AI, not just a chatbot, but a comprehensive platform with an AI Health Chat in 22+ Indian languages, a robust Drug Interaction Checker, AI-verified Desi Ilaaj, and more.…

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