Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care


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Xavier shares his experience deploying healthcare models, augmenting primary care with AI, the challenges of "ground truth" in medicine, and robustness in ML.

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Xavier Amatriain is co-founder and CTO of Curai, an ML-based primary care chat system. Previously, he was VP of Engineering at Quora, and Research/Engineering Director at Neflix, where he started and led the Algorithms team responsible for Netflix's recommendation systems.


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⏳ Timestamps:

0:00 Sneak peak, intro

0:49 What is Curai?

5:48 The role of AI within Curai

8:44 Why Curai keeps humans in the loop

15:00 Measuring diagnostic accuracy

18:53 Patient safety

22:39 Different types of models at Curai

25:42 Using GPT-3 to generate training data

32:13 How Curai monitors and debugs models

35:19 Model explainability

39:27 Robustness in ML

45:52 Connecting metrics to impact

49:32 Outro


🌟 Show notes:

- http://wandb.me/gd-xavier-amatriain

- Transcription of the episode

- Links to papers, projects, and people


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