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Enrico Coiera is Director of Health Informatics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Ronald St. John is an infectious disease expert who led Canada's SARS response and Pan American epidemiology for the World Health Organization. Both men and our own Adam Wynne discuss the recent breakthroughs in the use of artificial intelligence in identifying and responding to the COVID19 pandemic and now even more uses in health care. Coiera warns that the new AI system ChatGPT is good at "truthiness" but unreliable as a source of medical information for patients. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-545-ai-and-pandemics.
By Metta SpencerEnrico Coiera is Director of Health Informatics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Ronald St. John is an infectious disease expert who led Canada's SARS response and Pan American epidemiology for the World Health Organization. Both men and our own Adam Wynne discuss the recent breakthroughs in the use of artificial intelligence in identifying and responding to the COVID19 pandemic and now even more uses in health care. Coiera warns that the new AI system ChatGPT is good at "truthiness" but unreliable as a source of medical information for patients. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-545-ai-and-pandemics.