Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan

Ep 38: Oscar Co-Founder Mario Schlosser on Lessons from Implementing LLMs and How AI Will Impact Healthcare

Episode Summary

Oscar Health is a $4B public healthcare company, providing healthcare insurance to nearly 1 million members. Oscar is at the forefront of AI adoption, continuously developing new AI use cases in healthcare. On this week’s episode, we sat down with Oscar Health Co-Founder, former CEO, and now President of Technology Mario Schlosser to talk about where AI will have the biggest impact in healthcare, limitations of GPT-4 in healthcare, and why can't we have robot doctors today.

Episode Notes

Oscar Health is a $4B public healthcare company, providing healthcare insurance to nearly 1 million members. Oscar is at the forefront of AI adoption, continuously developing new AI use cases in healthcare. On this week’s episode, we sat down with Oscar Health Co-Founder, former CEO, and now President of Technology Mario Schlosser to talk about where AI will have the biggest impact in healthcare, limitations of GPT-4 in healthcare, and why can't we have robot doctors today.

 

(0:00) intro

(1:06) how will AI change healthcare in the next decade

(9:09) how Oscar uses AI

(18:40) how to build around healthcare requirements

(25:46) when would GPT-4 fail "miserably" and fundamental limitations of LLMs

(36:28) we shouldn’t piss off our smartest robots

(38:15) sharing AI knowledge between companies

(41:50) developing healthcare-specific models

(44:35) hackathons and karaoke nights at Oscar

(49:07) the need for a safety layer in LLMs

(51:33) best commercial opportunities in healthcare

(55:19) will their be AI doctors this decade?

(59:18) over-hyped/under-hyped

(1:00:49) most exciting AI company?

(1:08:46) over-hyped/under-hyped

 

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