Eons ago (2023), in ChatGPT’s first year, I blogged about a truly exciting book that had just come out: The AI Revolution in Medicine. Evidently I liked it – here’s the header of that post:
I still haven’t seen anything better on the subject. And here’s the amazing thing: despite the extraordinary rate of change in AI, the book’s held up amazingly well.
So I was thrilled to be invited by lead author Peter Lee to be a guest in a new series he’s doing about the book two years on, on the Microsoft Research podcast. My episode will be out in April.
Peter is president of Microsoft Research, and he’s amazingly soft-spoken for such a smart guy in such an important position. (I say that having crossed paths with lots of smart people at conferences through the years.) And unlike many in AI, he’s no promotional huckster – I first saw him speak at a conference on AI that October, and while people there were understandably cranked up about AI’s potential, he was the most pensive and reflective speaker.
The new series is titled “The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited.” There will be five episodes.
As a teaser Peter’s just launched “Episode 0,” a 12 minute reflection (of course) on his own introduction to the very early GPT-4 and what we can now see in the future.
You can watch Peter’s “Episode 0”, or read the transcript, here. Here are his closing words (lightly edited):
We are in a new world today, things are happening for real, and there’s, sort of, no turning back. And at that point, I think we can really get down to work.
As we think about the ultimate purpose of this series of conversations that we’re about to have, it’s to help people get to that stage of enlightenment, to roll up our sleeves, to sit down and think through all of the best knowledge and experience that we’ve gathered over the last two years, and chart the future of this AI revolution in medicine.
Thank you immensely to Peter for including the #PatientsUseAI perspective in it! We had lots to discuss.:-)
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