Dr. Atul Butte, a professor at UCSF and Chief Data Scientist of the UC Health System, discusses healthcare AI opportunities, challenges, hype, and more. Topics include AI adoption timeline, converting skeptical doctors, commercialization in AI, regulating consumer-facing AI apps, coolest AI demos, and what company Dr. Butte would want to run.

Dr. Atul Butte, a pioneering informatician, discusses his career, from pediatric endocrinology to trailblazing work with biomedical data. Topics include his entrepreneurial journey, the importance of utilizing electronic health record data, building neural networks in AI, the connection between pediatric endocrinology and informatics, the role of a chief data scientist in understanding human disease, the power of public speaking, the impact of the Bay Dol Act on academic researchers, managing data and infrastructure, and driving AI in medicine.

Atul Butte, Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF, discusses using AI to democratize healthcare, utilizing large datasets for comparative effectiveness research, ensuring patient data privacy, improving healthcare outcomes through data analysis, and addressing the risks of AI language model extrapolation.