Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
Building AI-powered primary care with Curai's CTO, Xavier Amatriain
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