Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care
Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care  
Podcast: Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
Published On: Fri Jul 30 2021
Description: Xavier shares his experience deploying healthcare models, augmenting primary care with AI, the challenges of "ground truth" in medicine, and robustness in ML.---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.---⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 Sneak peak, intro0:49 What is Curai?5:48 The role of AI within Curai8:44 Why Curai keeps humans in the loop15:00 Measuring diagnostic accuracy18:53 Patient safety 22:39 Different types of models at Curai25:42 Using GPT-3 to generate training data32:13 How Curai monitors and debugs models35:19 Model explainability39:27 Robustness in ML 45:52 Connecting metrics to impact49:32 Outro🌟 Show notes:- http://wandb.me/gd-xavier-amatriain- Transcription of the episode- Links to papers, projects, and people---Follow us on Twitter! 📍 https://twitter.com/wandb_gdGet our podcast on these platforms:👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​​👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​​👉 YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube​​👉 Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud​