Summary: Veterans Affairs last fall launched an whole new office with the goal of establishing the department as a leader in the use of artificial intelligence. It named Dr. Gil Alterovitz, formerly a health informatics researcher at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division, as its director. For a progress report, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin caught up with Alterovitz at an ACT-IAC artificial intelligence shared interest group meeting. He explained how the National Artificial Intelligence Institute is organized. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
