#25 Testing Deepseek R1 on Complex Medical Tasks. Here's what we found. (GRPO explainer)

Dev and Doc: AI For Healthcare Podcast

Dev and Doc put Deepseek R1 to the test in a technical and clinical deep dive.

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👨🏻‍⚕️Doc - Dr. Joshua Au Yeung - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-joshua-au-yeung/
🤖Dev - Zeljko Kraljevic https://twitter.com/zeljkokr

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Highlights
04:36 Intro
08:29 response from OpenAI, Anthropic- model training costs, tightening restrictions on China, pricing wars
13:13 what an open-source deepseek means for the world.
15:38 Sam altman and Dario amodei feeling the pressure
23:10 TECHNICAL deep dive - RLHF, ppo, dpo
37:08 GRPO, R1s secret sauce
45:02 the aha moment, learning like a human?
50:25 deepseek R1 training and controversy
59:08 deepseek healthcare evaluation - Ethnic Bias
1:06:17 The diagnostic acid test (fail)
1:12:46 Coding clinical data / Medical billing (shout out SNOMED)

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