Facebook AI Research's Dr. Joelle Pineau on COVID-19 Projects

Joelle Pineau is co-Managing Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR), supporting labs across North America and Europe. She is also a faculty member at Mila and an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where she co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. She speaks with us about FAIR's research into AI and medicine, with special attention to Facebook's COVID-19 projects. Pranav and Adriel first give an overview on computer vision and the history of pretraining and finetuning models in the context of medical imaging. The interview with Dr. Pineau starts at 8:12. If you like what you hear, let a friend know, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and connect with us on Twitter @AIHealthPodcast.

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Explore the ways in which AI will transform healthcare, biotech, and medicine through conversations with entrepreneurs, investors and scientists. Hosted by Pranav Rajpurkar and Adriel Saporta. Produced by Oishi Banerjee and Marc Robbins.