DeepSummary
The podcast episode features an interview with Peter Lee, a renowned computer scientist and corporate vice president at Microsoft. Lee discusses the potential of AI like GPT-4 to revolutionize healthcare and medicine. He shares personal experiences using GPT-4 for medical purposes and demonstrates its ability to provide insightful analysis and recommendations as a 'co-pilot' for doctors.
Lee emphasizes the importance of educating medical professionals on the strengths and limitations of AI tools like GPT-4. He highlights the need for wide-scale testing and establishing guidelines to ensure safe and responsible adoption of AI in healthcare. Lee also stresses the urgency of ensuring broad access to these technologies to bridge gaps in care.
The conversation explores the challenges of regulating AI in medicine while fostering innovation. Lee provides insights on partnerships between tech companies and healthcare organizations to develop effective AI-powered solutions. He shares examples of how GPT-4 is already being integrated into existing healthcare products, reducing administrative burdens on doctors.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- AI tools like GPT-4 have immense potential to revolutionize healthcare and medicine, acting as 'co-pilots' for doctors and bridging gaps in care.
- There is an urgent need for wide-scale testing, establishing guidelines, and responsible adoption of AI in healthcare to ensure patient safety.
- Educating medical professionals on the strengths and limitations of AI is crucial for effective utilization of these tools.
- Ensuring broad access to AI technologies in healthcare is essential to leverage their full potential and address disparities in care.
- Partnerships between tech companies and healthcare organizations are vital for developing effective AI-powered solutions.
- AI is already being integrated into existing healthcare products, reducing administrative burdens on doctors and enhancing patient experiences.
- Regulating AI in healthcare requires rethinking existing frameworks and fostering innovation while prioritizing patient safety.
- AI has the potential to synthesize every medical experience into validated knowledge and practices, advancing healthcare.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “At some point, it just makes sense that of course, you would never practice medicine without washing your hands first. And we will definitively get to a point, probably sooner than we think, where, of course, you would never, ever dream of practicing medicine without the assistance of AI.“ by Peter Lee
- “Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic, reported that in early studies, patients are preferring the notes generated by GP four, and have explicitly said they feel more human than the notes written by the doctors.“ by Peter Lee
- “The thing that's interesting about this kind of technology is it doesn't follow the pattern of any medical technology today. So the standard framework of a software medical device doesn't really hold up here.“ by Peter Lee
- “With AI, we ought to be able to do this routinely, that every single clinical encounter in every single medical experience should be synthesizable into a clinically sound and validated piece of medical knowledge and practice.“ by Peter Lee
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Possible
Reid Hoffman
11/29/23
What if every doctor and every patient had an artificial intelligence copilot to help with medical decisions? Peter Lee joins the show to offer his expertise as co-author of The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond and Corporate Vice President of Research and Incubations at Microsoft. Peter is working at the cutting edge of how to safely incorporate AI into medicine, training healthcare providers on the strengths and limitations of technology like GPT-4 in a medical setting. Reid, Aria, and Peter discuss how to regulate AI while encouraging innovation. Plus, Peter provides a fascinating live demonstration of GPT-4’s ability to listen to a patient’s symptoms and provide a second opinion, illustrating AI’s potential to bridge healthcare gaps and revolutionize care.
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Topics:
03:47 - Hellos and intros
04:16 - Mapping Peter’s career
07:00 - How patients can use AI in healthcare
08:54 - Peter’s personal experience using AI in healthcare
11:35 - Demo of GPT-4 as a physician’s copilot
15:30 - How best to educate about GPT-4’s capabilities
19:33 - Demo of GPT-4’s “critical thinking” skills
26:57 - How to safely incentivize innovation
30:37 - The importance of building effective technology around AI
31:47 - Exploring “hallucinations” in AI, and other limitations
35:28 - How to best use partnerships to foster innovation
38:21 - Example of new technology using AI in healthcare
40:37 - Rapidfire questions
The award-winning Possible podcast is back with a new season that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. Most of all, it asks: what if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way? Tune in for grounded and speculative takes on how technology—and, in particular, AI—is inspiring change and transforming the future.
This season, hosts Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger are speaking with a new set of ambitious builders and deep thinkers about everything from art to geopolitics, and from healthcare to education. These conversations also showcase another kind of guest: AI. Whether it's Inflection’s Pi, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or other AI tools, each episode will use AI to enhance and advance our discussion.
Possible is produced by Wonder Media Network and hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger. Our showrunner is Shaun Young. Possible is produced by Edie Allard, Sara Schleede, and Paloma Moreno Jimenez. Jenny Kaplan is our executive producer and editor. Special thanks to Katie Sanders, Surya Yalamanchili, Saida Sapieva, Ian Alas, Greg Beato, Ben Relles, Katie Zoller, Katy Halliday, Rhoades Clark, and Little Monster Media Company.