#02 A clinical introduction to Large language models (LLM), AI chatbots, Med-PaLM

Dev and Doc: AI For Healthcare Podcast

In this episode, we introduce large language models in healthcare, their potentials and pitfalls. We put AI chatbots like ChatGPT to the test, discuss our thoughts on Google's Med-PaLM, and dabble in a bit of philosophy of artificial general intelligence.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:16 Intro
02:04 ChatGPT, A giant leap for mankind?
04:02 Spending two weeks with ChatGPT as a doctor
07:36 History of Large Language Models (LLMs)
10:15 A top down approach to what is an LLM
17:31 Medical language is a language in itself
18:42 A lot of data, that is just wrong
21:05 Self-supervised training LLM
22:05 Instruction based fine tuning a LLM
23:52 Doc summarizing LLM training
25:48 The clinical shortcomings of instruction based tuning
27:33 Reinforcement learning from Human (clinician) feedback
32:22 Doc summarizing LLM, RLHF - A strict vs a progressive parent
34:10 There are still many problems with LLMs, aligning with clinical training data
36:26 Training a LLM on discharge summaries is a bad idea
39:18 Garbage in garbage out - data
40:13 Context windows
40:43 Data cleaning clinical notes
44:31 Bias in scientific domain LLMs PubmedGPT, Galatica
46:31 Data drift in medicine and continual learning
50:01 MedPaLM - instruction tuning to the medical domain
50:23 Model benchmarks do not reflect the real world
59:11 LLM emulating human language, but not the brain. Only one piece of the mind
1:01:10 LLMs on headaches and general knowledge
1:03:25 Where does a LLM fit in into the clinical work flow
1:05:50 Are regulations working against safety?
1:08:26 Cooling down LLMs to pass regulations
1:09:50 Why call it a hallucination? It's a false positive
1:13:57 Examples of bias of ChatGPT - A bad Santa Claus
1:17:00 Do LLMs encode true "understanding"? Can language lead to AGI?
1:20:05 Pregnancy - an acid test for Large Language Models
1:21:55 Training a LLM for the NHS (NHS-LLM)
1:25:25 Tell the model to "think deeply"
1:27:55 Asking ChatGPT to draw a picture of a human O.O
1:31:00 Language is not enough to achieve AGI
1:32:10 What can clinicians do about LLMs? Assisting vs Autonomous
1:39:07 What's next- Forecasting diagnoses with AI

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