Alan Karthikesalingam
Clinician and researcher at Google DeepMind, working on AI for biomedicine. He focuses on medical intelligence and biomedical intelligence.
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Jun 18, 2025 • 38min
Google’s Efforts to Build Patient-Facing AI: A Conversation with Drs. Alan Karthikesalingam and Anil Palepu
Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam and Dr. Anil Palepu from Google delve into the creation of AMIE, an AI designed for patient interactions. They discuss how AMIE was trained with synthetic conversations, proving to be more effective than real transcripts. The duo emphasizes the importance of empathy in AI and the challenges of incorporating machine learning in clinical workflows. They also touch on how AI is evolving in healthcare and its potential to transform patient care by providing quicker and more engaging interactions.
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Sep 8, 2025 • 40min
76 | Can Google’s Co-scientist project give scientists superpowers?
Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan from Google DeepMind delve into their groundbreaking AI co-scientist project. They discuss how this innovation mirrors human hypothesis generation while revealing its limitations. The duo highlights the intriguing idea of AI’s ‘tournaments’ of concepts and its quest to think beyond established facts. They also explore the potential for AI to generate novel research questions and the importance of maintaining human insight in scientific exploration, ultimately reshaping the future of discovery.
