Generative A.I. is rapidly transforming medicine. My guest today is brilliant, inspiring Prof. Zachary Lipton — Chief Scientific Officer and CTO of Abridge, a startup that has quickly raised $208m to lead the transformation!

More on Zack:

• Assoc. Prof. in the Machine Learning Dept. of Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science school.

• Highly-cited (23k+ citations) with research spanning core ML methods and theory, as well as applications in healthcare and NLP.

• Directs the Approximately Correct Machine Intelligence (ACMI) Lab at CMU, where they build robust systems for the real world.

• Is also a jazz saxophonist! 🎷

Despite Zack being such a deep technical expert, most of today’s content will be of interest to anyone who’d like to hear about the cutting edge of generative A.I. applications in healthcare.

The tech that Zack is leading development of at Abridge, which you can hear about in today's episode:

• Initial deployment uses ambient listening and generative A.I. to reduce the cognitive burden of clinical documentation, reducing burnout as well as enabling clinicians to spend less time with computers and more with patients.

• Industry-leading automatic speech recognition engine specifically designed for healthcare applications; can accurately transcribe speech in challenging environments, e.g., when there is background noise or when multiple people are speaking.

• Supports 14+ languages including handling code-switching (where speakers shift between languages) and interpreter-mediated conversations.

• In-house LLM development allows greater customization and responsible-use features, such as transparency (e.g., links to source transcript/audio) and evidence extraction (verification process).

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