Conversations with tyler is produced by the mercatis center at george mason university, bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems. I'm here up in boston with the tulgoande, and we're going to talk about health, health care, health care policy and atule goande himself. How far are we from having an a i that is capable of actually doing diagnosis to people? That is, they might speak into escape connection, something like watson would hear what they say, and they would then the person well enough that this would be a usable form of health care.
The surgeon, researcher, and celebrated writer joined Tyler for a conversation on why Watson will never diagnose your illness, what George Church’s narcolepsy teaches us about CRISPR, what’s missing in medical education, Michael Crichton’s cultural influence, Knausgård versus Ferrante, indie music, and the thing that makes Gawande “bawl like a baby.”
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Recorded June 12th, 2017 Other ways to connect