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Peter Lee and the Impact of GPT-4 + Large Language AI Models in Medicine
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Link to the book: The AI Revolution in Medicine
Link to my review of the book
Link to the Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence preprint we discussed
Link to Peter’s paper on GPT-4 in NEJM
Transcript (with a few highlights in bold of many parts that could be bolded!)
Eric Topol (00:00):
Hello, I'm Eric Topol, and I'm really delighted to have with me Peter Lee, who's the director of Microsoft Research and who is the author, along with a couple of colleagues for an incredible book called The AI Revolution in Medicine, GPT-4 and Beyond. Welcome, Peter.
Peter Lee (00:20):
Hello Eric. And thanks so much for having me on. This is a real honor to be here.
Eric Topol (00:24):
Well, I think you are in the enviable position of having spent now more than seven months looking at GPT-4’s S capability, particularly in the health and medicine space. And it was great that you recorded that in a book for everyone else to learn because you had such a nice head start. I guess what I wanted to start with is, I mean, it's, it's a phenomenal book. I [holding the book up], this prop. I can't resist
Peter Lee (00:52):
Eric Topol (00:53):
When, when I got it, I, I couldn't, I stayed up most of the night because I couldn't put it down. It was, it is so engrossing. But when you, when you first got your hands on this and started testing it, what were, what were your initial thoughts?
Peter Lee (01:09):
Yeah. I, let me first start by saying thank you for the nice words about the book, but really, so much of the credit goes to the co-authors, Carey Goldberg and Zach Kohane and Corey in particular took my overly academic writing. I suspect you have the same kind of writing style as well as Zach's pretty academic writing and helped turn it into something that would be approachable to non-computer scientists and as she put it, as much as possible as a page turner. So I'm glad that her work helped make the, the book an easy read. I,
Eric Topol (01:54):
I want to just say you're very humble because the first three chapters that you wrote yourself were clearly the, the