LLMs/foundation models in healthcare. With Dr Eric Topol

This episode features a conversation with Eric Topol, a renowned cardiologist scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute where he is a professor of Molecular Medicine . He is editor-in-chief of Medscape and He has published three bestselling books including the highly influential  Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again . 

In 2019 he led the Topol review a report focussed on planning for the NHS future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence.

Our discussion topics include: 

• How LLMs could make doctors more empathetic
• The potential for ‘keyboard liberation’ using LLMs to repair the damage that EHRs have inflicted on the doctor-patient relationship
• The ‘silicon-vallydation’ issue and the need for high quality evidence generation for AI
• Hallucinations and the ‘frequently wrong never in doubt’ issue