The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: An Introduction
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PETER LEE: This is The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited. I’m Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Research, and I’m pretty excited to introduce this series of conversations as part of the Microsoft Research Podcast.
About two years ago, with Carey Goldberg and Zak Kohane, we wrote a book, The AI Revolution in Medicine. This was a book that was intended to educate the world of healthcare and the world of medical research about this new thing that was emerging. This idea of generative AI. And we wrote the book in secret. In fact, the whole existence of what we now know of as OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model hadn’t been publicly disclosed or revealed to the world. And so when we were working on this book,