The Challenges and Benefits of Generative AI in Health Care

01/17/24 • 35 min

Artificial Intelligence is on every business leader’s agenda. How do we make sense of the fast-moving new developments in AI over the past year? Azeem Azhar returns to bring clarity to leaders who face a complicated information landscape.

Generative AI has a lot to offer health care professionals and medical scientists. This week, Azeem speaks with renowned cardiologist, scientist, and author Eric Topol about the change he’s observed among his colleagues in the last two years, as generative AI developments have accelerated in medicine.

They discuss:

The challenges and benefits of AI in health care.
The pros and cons of different open-source and closed-source models for health care use.
The medical technology that has been even more transformative than AI in the past year.

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@erictopol

Further resources:

When AI Meets Medicine (Exponential View Podcast, 2019)
Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? (Eric Topol, TED, 2023)

They discuss:

The challenges and benefits of AI in health care.
The pros and cons of different open-source and closed-source models for health care use.
The medical technology that has been even more transformative than AI in the past year.

@azeem
@erictopol

Further resources:

When AI Meets Medicine (Exponential View Podcast, 2019)
Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? (Eric Topol, TED, 2023)

Previous Episode

Managing AI’s Carbon Footprint

This week, Azeem joins Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher and climate lead at Hugging Face, to shed light on the environmental footprint and other immediate impacts of AI, and how they compare to more long-term challenges.

They cover:

The energy consumption and carbon impact of AI models — and how researchers have gone about measuring it.
The tangible economic and social impacts of AI, and how focusing on existential risks now hurt our chances of addressing the immediate risks of AI deployment.
How regulation and governance could evolve to address the most pressing questions of the industry.

@azeem
@SashaMTL

Further resources:

Power Hungry Processing: Watt’s Driving the Cost of AI Deployment (Alexandra Sasha Luccioni et al, 2023)
The Open-Source Future of Artificial Intelligence (Exponential View, 2023)
AI is Dangerous, But Not For the Reasons You Think (TED, Sasha Luccioni, 2023)

Next Episode

Azeem’s 2024 Trends: AI, Energy, and Decentralization

As 2024 begins, leaders are facing increasing uncertainty and a host of difficult decisions. Azeem Azhar returns to bring clarity amid a complicated information landscape, with his analysis of 12 core themes that will shape the year ahead, including AI adoption, geopolitics, decentralization, the energy transition, and more.

The discussion specifically touches on:

What will drive widespread corporate adoption of AI.
How to think about the emergence of new business models around AI.
What you need to know about the new wave of decentralization technologies.
How leaders should think about an electrified world of stable and declining power prices.

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