# Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care

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Podcast: [Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent)
Published: 2021-07-30T19:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast
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Duration seconds: 3009

## Resource

Xavier shares his experience deploying healthcare models, augmenting primary care with AI, the challenges of "ground truth" in medicine, and robustness in ML. --- 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. --- ⏳ 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 🌟 Show notes: - http://wandb.me/gd-xavier-amatriain - Transcription of the episode - Links to papers, projects, and people --- Follow us on Twitter! 📍 https://twitter.com/wandb_gd Get our podcast on these platforms: 👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​​ 👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​ 👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​​ 👉 YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube​​ 👉 Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud​

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