Episode 14 - Building AI for better healthcare
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Hello, I'm Andrew Main, and this is the OpenAI Podcast. Today, we're talking to Doctor. Nate Gross, Head of Health and Karan Singhal, who leads Health AI research at OpenAI. We'll cover what went into training models to handle sensitive questions and how it's helping clinicians, patients, and healthcare systems.
We actually worked really closely with a group, a cohort of around two fifty physicians across every stage of generation of this data.
And we're starting to see medications that have been sitting on a shelf that all of a sudden AI has found ways for them to have direct value in patient lives.
How did you find your way into healthcare?
So what drew me to healthcare initially was health policy. I was very interested. This was before the first Obama election, value based care was first becoming a thing. I started studying different ways to make healthcare more accessible to more people. And then eventually went to Emory for medical school. What drew me to that was a large public hospital, Grady Hospital, you know, to make sure that you're taking advantage of every clinical hour you have.
So what kind of things were you doing?
So I was mostly pissing off the IT department. When I was in medical school, the newsfeed came out, the iPhone came out, Twitter came out, the app store came out and so comparing the technology that we had as doctors, which was fax machine, clipboard, paper binder, the beginnings of electronic health records to like what my friends had or what the patients had in the waiting room was pretty profound.
So you come at it from the point of view as an AI researcher, where did your interest in applying this to healthcare come from?
So I nerd about a lot when I was younger about things like philosophy of mind and I thought a lot about, you know, intelligence and how far could intelligence go and could machines be intelligent? A lot of those explorations took me towards, as I was learning about AI and starting to work on my first AI projects, thinking a lot about the ways in which AI could have a lot of impact on humanity in the future and I thought something like, I didn't predict the future or how fast it would happen, but I thought something like AGI would happen within our lifetimes. So then once I had that conviction,
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