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Bob Rogers

Cofounder, Apixio

Search every verified Bob Rogers interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Bob Rogers, an AI expert, physicist, and author, discussed his recent work and book in a June 2024 podcast appearance. He is the CEO of Oii.ai, a company he founded in 2019 to automate supply chain design using advanced modeling and AI. During the podcast, he described co-authoring the book "Chat GPT, an AI Expert, and a Lawyer Walk into a Bar: The Evolution of Creativity and Communication" with his wife, attorney Teresa Hart. He noted that while working with ChatGPT, he was impressed by its ability to tell stories, adopt a voice, and incorporate humor, but he also cautioned that the model "doesn't actually know anything" and that its responses, while plausible-sounding, can be untrue or nonsensical, concluding that fact-checking is necessary. In an earlier appearance, at a 2017 SXSW panel hosted by Intel on precision medicine, Rogers, then Chief Data Scientist of Intel's AI Solutions Group, discussed the potential of AI in healthcare. He described the vast amount of disparate data—from genomes, microbiomes, electronic health records, wearables, and imaging—that could collectively improve scientific understanding and individual care, arguing that machine learning is necessary to disambiguate and operate on such data. He also framed precision medicine as a "personal GPS for healthcare," capable of providing patients with relevant information, and noted that while AI could help skilled surgeons, it could particularly benefit patients, who he described as the least trained actors in healthcare. He acknowledged a confidence problem in healthcare, emphasizing the need for technology to prove itself beyond research papers before being integrated into standard care.

Recent appearances

  • Bob Rogers, AI expert, physicist, author, and CEO of Oii.ai, discusses what it was like to co-aut...

    June 28, 2024 · 📺 PeopleReign

    Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/fan...) Bob Rogers (  / bob-rogers-0a00441  ) , AI pioneer, entrpreneur, and author, started Oii in 2019 to automate supply chain design. The company uses advanced modeling and AI to optimize supply chain planning and automate the configuration of complex networks. Bob started his career as a Harvard physicist using neural networks to measure activity near black holes in deep space.  During his 35 year career Bob has been a trailblazer in using AI to solve complex problems. He’s also an Expert in Residence for AI at UCSF Smarter Health an…

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  • The Healthcare AI Project That Experts Said Wasn’t Possible

    March 29, 2022 · 📺 Healthcare IT Today

    While at the HIMSS 2022 conference, I sat down with Bob Rogers, AI Expert in Residence Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF, and Sri Ambati, CEO & Co-Founder at H2O.ai, to learn about a really interesting project that Rogers was working on at UCSF. When he started the project, he asked a number of experts about how to solve the problem and they said that it wasn’t possible. Rogers turned to H2O.ai and their Document.ai solution to solve the problem. Learn more about H2O.ai: https://h2o.ai/ Find more great Health IT content: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

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  • Bob Rogers: Adventures in Analytics | IACS Seminar

    November 21, 2017 · 📺 Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science

    Presenter: Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist for Analytics and AI, Intel Talk Description: The world is an amazing place for data scientists. Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist for Analytics and AI at Intel Corporation, will describe his experiences as a leader in analytics and AI. He will share his perspective on what makes a great data scientist, how he defines data science, analytics and Artificial Intelligence, real insights into the day to day life of a data scientist, and an overview of the model creation pipeline. Bob believes that the opportunities to apply advanced analytics to improve…

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  • Intel AI Lounge – Precision Medicine Panel at SXSW | Intel Business

    October 16, 2017 · 📺 Intel Business

    Panelists John Mattison, CIO, Kaiser Permante, Naveen Rao, VP and General Manager, Intel, and Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist of Intel AI Solutions Group discuss how AI will advance precision medicine in the future and business opportunities in healthcare. As the healthcare industry moves towards precision medicine, massive volumes of data are being used to increase the accuracy and speed of clinical care. However, the gap in managing, exchanging and deriving insights from these different data types continues to be an industry challenge. Key highlights of this panel discussion include how art…

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  • Workshop Revealing The True State of the Patient with Big Data Analytics

    June 25, 2015 · 📺 Health Technology Forum

    Speakers: Bob Rogers, Phd - Chief Data Scientist For Big Data Solutions, Intel Vishnu Vyas - Director Of Research And Development, Apixio

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