Celebrating the Podcast's Anniversary and Discussing 'Med-PaLM or Facepalm?'

Alex and Emily are taking another stab at Google and other companies' aspirations to be part of the healthcare system - this time with the expertise of Stanford incoming assistant professor of dermatology and biomedical data science Roxana Daneshjou. A look at the gap between medical licensing examination questions and real life, and the inherently two-tiered system that might emerge if LLMs are brought into the diagnostic process.

References:

Google blog post describing Med-PaLM

Nature: Large language models encode clinical knowledge

Politico: Microsoft teaming up with Epic Systems to integrate generative AI into electronic medical records software

MedRXiv: Beyond the hype: large language models propagate race-based medicine (Omiye, Daneshjou, et al)

Fresh AI hell:

Fake summaries of fake reviews
https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.bsky.social/post/3k4wouet3pg2u

School administrators asking ChatGPT which books they have to remove from school libraries, given Iowa’s book ban

Mason City Globe Gazette: “Each of these texts was reviewed using AI software to determine if it contains a depiction of a sex act. Based on this review, there are 19 texts that will be removed from our 7-12 school library collections and stored in the Administrative Center while we await further guidance or clarity.”

Loquacity and Visible Emotion: ChatGPT as a Policy Advisor
Written by authors at the Bank of Italy

AI generated school bus routes get students home at 10pm

Lethal AI generated mushroom-hunting books

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Production by Christie Taylor.