769: Generative AI for Medicine, with Prof. Zack Lipton

Generative AI in medicine takes center stage as Prof. Zachary Lipton, Chief Scientific Officer at Abridge, joins host Jon Krohn to discuss the significant advancements in AI that are reshaping healthcare. This episode is brought to you by the DataConnect Conference (https://www.dataconnectconf.com/dccwest/conference), and by Data Universe, the out-of-this-world data conference (https://datauniverse2024.com). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • The inspiration for Zack to get started in ML and healthcare [03:56] • The hardware required to use Abridge [12:29] • The key data science projects at Abridge right now [35:05] • Abridge's tech stack [59:54] • How Abridge ensures reliability in a high-stakes setting like healthcare [1:07:29] • How Zack’s academic research cross-pollinates with his commercial ML projects [1:21:05] • How Zack’s jazz background molded his entrepreneur and data science journey [1:30:32] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/769