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The Times Tech Podcast

Limbic’s Ross Harper: “AI won’t replace doctors, it will enhance them”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The world is aflutter with talk of "AI doctors". A UK company has actually built one. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dr Ross Harper, co founder and chief executive of Limbic to talk about creating a clinical AI chatbot (4:30), how it works (6:40), starting out four years ago 13:40), getting in with 40% of mental health care providers in Britain (17:40), being certified as a medical device (22:40), targeting America (24:40), studying computational neuroscience (27:00), starting the company (33:40), the future of AI in medicine (38:00), and the comparison to self-driving vehicles (41:15). 

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about? I actually think this AI doctor in your pocket might not be the most useful way of thinking about the evolution of AI in healthcare.

0:46.5

Why?

0:47.4

I think from the very beginning, it frames the question as one of substitution.

0:56.8

You're saying that the doctor will be an AI in your pocket. I think that is, given the current state of affairs, a pretty arrogant and potentially ignorant

1:03.2

way to be looking at AI integration in healthcare, I think that true value comes from a collaboration between the clinical community and the AI community.

1:14.9

And I think AI will be the great amplifier rather than the substitution.

1:37.9

Hello, and a wonderful. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of top people in tech.

1:45.6

This week, we're talking about AI. Shocker, I know. But specifically, AI in medicine. Now, you may remember,

1:51.8

we recently had on Dom Pimenta of Tortoise, and they've created a bot that helps doctors take notes,

1:58.8

transcribe, cut out hours of busy work. What they're not doing, though, is this idea of an AI doctor in your pocket, this thing that people have been talking

2:00.9

about since the moment, really chat GPT kind of burst on the scene, this idea that every person

2:06.5

someday will have, you know, really high quality medical advice accessible immediately under

2:15.0

device. It's one of the big promises of AI, at least from the

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