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E24: The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
E24: The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School
From"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
May 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Nathan sits down with Professor Zak Kohane, the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and co-author of the new book, The AI Revolution in Medicine, for which Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO wrote the foreword to the book.
Professor Kohane was among a select few people to receive early preview and research access to GPT-4 in the fall of 2022, and his approach to exploring and characterizing how AI is about to transform medicine.
The book is out May 13, 2023 and can be ordered here (or on Amazon by searching for "The AI Revolution in Medicine")
Regardless of the field you're in, Dr. Kohane's combination of deep immersion, enthusiastic exploration, pragmatic optimism, risk awareness, realism, and forward-thinking vision make this a worthy example for others to study and emulate.
PODCAST RECOMMENDATION:
Youtube: @UpstreamwithErikTorenberg
Audio: https://link.chtbl.com/Upstream
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode preview
(05:29) Dr. Isaac Kohane’s story
(15:00) Sponsor: Omneky
(16:29) Advice to others thinking of applying AI to their own disciplines
(20:33) The tension of using AI in medicine
(25:04) The Trial Paradigm of AI
(31:15) Is it possible to use GPT as a healthcare provider in population studies?
(34:14) The Trainee Paradigm of AI
(36:09) The Partner Paradigm of AI and how doctors should use AI
(40:33) AI provided interaction and how that can improve patient care
(42:26) The Torchbearer Paradigm of AI
(42:59) Can GPT independently conduct medical research?
(46:58) The future for impactful use cases of AI in medicine
(51:04) Integrating AlphaFold into language models
(54:10) AI-alignment and patient data in medicine
TWITTER:
@CogRev_Podcast
@labenz (Nathan)
@zakkohane (Isaac)
@eriktorenberg (Erik)
Thank you Omneky for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.
More show notes and reading material released in our Substack: cognitiverevolution.substack.com
Professor Kohane was among a select few people to receive early preview and research access to GPT-4 in the fall of 2022, and his approach to exploring and characterizing how AI is about to transform medicine.
The book is out May 13, 2023 and can be ordered here (or on Amazon by searching for "The AI Revolution in Medicine")
Regardless of the field you're in, Dr. Kohane's combination of deep immersion, enthusiastic exploration, pragmatic optimism, risk awareness, realism, and forward-thinking vision make this a worthy example for others to study and emulate.
PODCAST RECOMMENDATION:
Youtube: @UpstreamwithErikTorenberg
Audio: https://link.chtbl.com/Upstream
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode preview
(05:29) Dr. Isaac Kohane’s story
(15:00) Sponsor: Omneky
(16:29) Advice to others thinking of applying AI to their own disciplines
(20:33) The tension of using AI in medicine
(25:04) The Trial Paradigm of AI
(31:15) Is it possible to use GPT as a healthcare provider in population studies?
(34:14) The Trainee Paradigm of AI
(36:09) The Partner Paradigm of AI and how doctors should use AI
(40:33) AI provided interaction and how that can improve patient care
(42:26) The Torchbearer Paradigm of AI
(42:59) Can GPT independently conduct medical research?
(46:58) The future for impactful use cases of AI in medicine
(51:04) Integrating AlphaFold into language models
(54:10) AI-alignment and patient data in medicine
TWITTER:
@CogRev_Podcast
@labenz (Nathan)
@zakkohane (Isaac)
@eriktorenberg (Erik)
Thank you Omneky for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off.
More show notes and reading material released in our Substack: cognitiverevolution.substack.com
Released:
May 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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