Keynote Speaker & Panelist: Dr. Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research
Talk Title: The Emergence of General AI for Medicine
Abstract:
Large language models such as GPT-4 have emerged as powerful new tools for information work, including aspects of healthcare delivery, healthcare management, and advancing medical science. GPT-4, in particular, shows impressive capabilities that go beyond direct medical knowledge, to include even support for patient engagement and medical research. This talk presents highlights of an intensive, year-long study exploring the benefits, limitations, and risks of GPT-4 in medicine. Our fundamental conclusion is that GPT-4 may represent the most important advance in computing technology, with potentially transformative impact on healthcare, and despite having received no specialized training in medicine. Examples will be shown of how the general intelligence of GPT-4 can be used, with implications for the current and future practice of medicine.
Bio:
Dr. Peter Lee is President, Microsoft Research. He leads Microsoft Research and incubates new research-powered products and lines of business in areas such as artificial intelligence, computing foundations, health, and life sciences. Before joining Microsoft in 2010, he was at DARPA, where he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. Prior to that, he was a professor and the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the boards of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. He served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He has testified before both the US House Science and Technology Committee and the US Senate Commerce Committee. With Carey Goldberg and Dr.Isaac Kohane, he is the coauthor of the best-selling book, “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond.” In2024, Peter Lee was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in health and life sciences.