. ♪ charlie: siddhartha mukherjee is here.is an assistant professor of medicine at columbia, and a cancer professional and researcher. he is also a very good writer and pulitzer prize-winning author. thisatest work comes out month. he writes about the future of automated medicine in a new piece for "the new yorker." it is called "the algorithm will see you now.". i am pleased to have siddhartha mukherjee back at this table. with some sense of fraternity, tell me how this came about. siddhartha: this piece came about because it is a conference you organize every fall, and i was talking at this conference me heastian, and he told had been working on this thing in ai and medicine. my ears perked up. he began to describe sort of an early version. it wasn't there yet. it instantly caught my attention as a physician. thesef we could use powerful technologies, deep learning paradigms, to start doing diagnosis? what would happen to radiology or dermatology? what would happen to doctors once we engage powerful computers to aid in diagn

i am pleased to have siddhartha mukherjee back at the stable. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> with some sense of fraternity, tell me how this piece came about. >> this piece came about because you know, it is a conference that you organized. >> rose: right. >> every fall, and i was talking at this conference to sebastian-- who works on ai. and sebastian told me, you know, i've been working on this thing in ai in medicine. and so my ears perked up. we were at the conference and my ears perked up. i said what are you doing? and sebastian than began to describe sort of an early version, this wasn't there yet. it certainly hadn't been published in nature as it eventually was. but it instantly caught my attention as a physician, what if we could use these powerful technologies, deep learning paradigms to start doing diagnosis. what would happen to radiology, what will happen to determine tolling. what will happen to doctors once we engage powerful computers to aid in diagnosis. so that is sort of the birth. >> that was-- so it began with a what it

charlie: siddhartha mukherjee is here.ant professor of medicine at columbia and a cancer physician and researcher. he is also a very good writer, a pulitzer prize-winning author. his latest book comes out in paperback this month. he writes about the future of automated medicine in a new piece for "new yorker" magazine. it is called "the algorithm will see you now." i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. siddhartha: thank you. charlie: with some sense of paternity, tell me how this piece came about. siddhartha:

charlie: siddhartha mukherjee is here.e is an assistant professor of medicine at columbia and a cancer physician and researcher. he is also a very good writer, a pulitzer prize-winning author. his latest book comes out in paperback this month. he writes about the future of automated medicine in a new piece for "new yorker" magazine. it is called "the algorithm will see you now." i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. siddhartha: thank you. charlie: with some sense of paternity, tell me how this piece came about. siddhartha: this piece came about because it is a conference you organized every fall. i was talking at this conference to sebastian thrun, who works on ai. he told me i have been working on this thing in ai and medicine. my ears perked up. we were at the conference. i said, "what are you doing?" he began to describe an early version of this. it certainly had not been published in "nature" as it eventually was. it instantly caught my attention. what if we could use these powerful technologies, deep le