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A couple of LLM-based patient tool ideas

I keep a list of LLM-driven startups in healthcare. Most of what I track falls into two buckets: Operations (scheduling, billing, prior auth) and Clinical (scribes, summarization, care...

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Redesigning Apprenticeship for the AI Era

I first heard Ethan Mollick on The Ezra Klein Show in April 2024 (“How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?”). He offered sensible, practical ways to use...

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Metaprompting

Dharmesh’s post made me realize there’s a name for something I’ve been doing implicitly for a while—using AI to help me write better prompts. Strictly speaking, that’s AI-assisted...

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Generative AI and Healthcare: An ongoing list of application areas

It’s easy to feel the immense transformational capacity of Generative AI as a solution. And healthcare has no shortage of problems to solve. The real insight is in...

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Three simple examples of LLM confabulations

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can handle two aspects of communication very well: plausibility and fluency. Given an input context they determine what are the most probable...

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Curious historical connection between psychology and LLMs

A few months ago my curiosity around how-are-LLMs-‘learning’ took me down the rabbit hole of AI and Psychology history and I ended up finding a string of very...

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NLG and the range of tasks within it

The first 10 minutes of this Stanford CS224N lecture explained NLU, NLG and the tasks within and it was helpful. Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a subset of NLP...

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Language Models and GPT’s evolution

As explained in this Stanford CS50 tech talk, Language Models (LMs) are basically a probability distribution over some vocabulary. For every word we give an LM, it can...

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When LLM experts say “We don’t’ know how”

I recently heard Jeff Bezos briefly talk about his views on LLMs here. Less than a minute into the conversation, he said something that struck a chord with...

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Earlier Writing (2008-2017): These are my old notes on health IT and the digital health industry before AI changed the conversation.