The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School

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 OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman 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.

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.

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

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[jonkraghshow]

The paperback just arrived. I spent an hour with it and I'm blown away. Useful not only for medicine but very useful for trade-offs in all critical applications.

[larryskelly]

Very good book, bought for my three kids in healthcare. Validates our thinking about the importance and direction of work we are doing in our lab to build health devices and apps.

[jonathansalem]

Thank you for all these great interviews. I will be sharing.

[saultorres]

how will this ai be used to decrease standards of medical training and possibly lead to the technician-ification of the work doctors do?

[NarutoUzumaki-lmoz]

So ai will decentralize all things, and it definitely will end medical authority on our bodies.