#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Daphne Koller is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng and Founder and CEO of insitro, a company at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine.
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Daphne’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/daphnekoller
Daphne’s Website: https://ai.stanford.edu/users/koller/index.html
Insitro: http://insitro.com
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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:22 – Will we one day cure all disease?
06:31 – Longevity
10:16 – Role of machine learning in treating diseases
13:05 – A personal journey to medicine
16:25 – Insitro and disease-in-a-dish models
33:25 – What diseases can be helped with disease-in-a-dish approaches?
36:43 – Coursera and education
49:04 – Advice to people interested in AI
50:52 – Beautiful idea in deep learning
55:10 – Uncertainty in AI
58:29 – AGI and AI safety
1:06:52 – Are most people good?
1:09:04 – Meaning of life
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Daphne and Kohler, a professor of computer science |
| 0:04.6 | and Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Eng and founder and CEO of |
| 0:10.8 | InCitro, a company at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine. |
| 0:16.1 | We're now in the exciting early days of using the data-driven methods of machine learning |
| 0:20.6 | to help discover and develop new drugs and treatments at scale. |
| 0:24.9 | Many in InCitro are leading the way on this, with breakthroughs that may ripple through |
| 0:30.0 | all fields of medicine, including ones most critical for helping with the current coronavirus |
| 0:35.5 | pandemic. |
| 0:37.3 | This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 outbreak. |
| 0:41.4 | For everyone feeling the medical, psychological and financial burden of this crisis, I'm sending |
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