June 22, 2024
The AI Doctor Can See You Now, with Vivek Natarajan and Khaled Saab from Google
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player AnalysisAbout this episode
Dive into the future of medicine with Google researchers Khaled Saab and Vivek Natarajan, discussing the breakthroughs in AI for healthcare. Discover how AI doctors may soon provide high-quality medical advice, enhancing global access to healthcare. Learn about the innovative use of large language models in medical applications and the potential for AI to outperform human doctors. Listen as we explore the significance of AI's role in healthcare and its implications for future medical practices, featuring insights from leaders in AI research. SPONSORS: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds; offers one consistent price, and nobody does data better than Oracle. If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/cognitive The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://bit.ly/BraveTCR 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 https://www.omneky.com/ Head to Squad to access global engineering without the headache and at a fraction of the cost: head to https://choosesquad.com/ and mention “Turpentine” to skip the waitlist. RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Byrne Hobart, the writer of The Diff, is revered in Silicon Valley. You can get an hour with him each week. See for yourself how his thinking can upgrade yours. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rANlV54GCARLgMOtpkzKt Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riff-with-byrne-hobart-and-erik-torenberg/id1716646486 CHAPTERS: (00:00:00) About the Show (00:04:34) Introduction (00:06:35) Flamingo (00:11:50) Importance of data quality (00:13:29) Amy: AI doctor (00:18:44) Simulation Learning Environment (00:23:26) Sponsors: Oracle | Brave (00:25:34) Training the Agents (00:27:29) Tens of thousands of data points (00:30:35) How to incorporate new knowledge (00:33:21) MedGemini (00:34:51) Sponsors: Omneky | Squad (00:36:38) Uncertainty guided search (00:39:29) Generalist models (00:41:16) MedGemini, Gemini, multimodal, medical images (00:44:57) Future work, integration, consolidation (00:46:00) Cost of AI (00:52:38) When will AI Doctors be Deployed? (00:58:22) The Speed of Trust (00:59:58) Societal Acceptance of AI Doctors (01:02:06) Uncertainty-Guided Search (01:06:02) Med-Gemini: Chest X-Rays and CT Scans (01:17:38) AI Scientist (01:20:01) What are the principles at play? (01:22:58) What should we do about AI? (01:28:24) LLM for democratizing access to care (01:34:22) Final Message (01:35:38) Closing (01:36:45) Outro