Curing All Disease with AI with Max Jaderberg

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Can AI help us model biology down to the molecular level? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn about Nobel-prize-winning Alphafold, the protein folding problem, and how solving it could end disease with AI researcher, Max Jaderberg.

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0:00.0	So AI was not satisfied just whooping our ass in chess and in jeopardy and everything else
0:06.0	where it looks like brains mattered. It's now taken over our physiology.
0:10.2	Well, no, you pointed it in a good direction, aimed it at a good place and we're getting someone.
0:14.5	To solve our diseases. Yeah. So now it's going to cure us of all disease before it makes us its slaves.
0:21.9	Because we need healthy slaves.
0:23.9	All that and more.
0:25.9	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:29.3	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:31.9	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:40.3	StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk.
0:44.3	Special Edition. Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:48.3	Special edition means we've got Gary O'Reilly in the house, Gary.
0:52.3	Hi, Neil. Former soccer pro.
0:53.3	Apparently. Yeah, and soccer announcer? Yes, Neil. Former soccer pro. Apparently.
0:54.5	Yeah, and soccer announcer?
0:55.9	Yes, definitely.
0:57.1	And you still do that, don't you?
0:58.6	I do.
0:59.4	Chuck Nice, baby.
1:00.2	Hey, announcing that I know nothing about soccer.
1:03.8	You're in my club, then.
1:05.5	Announcing that you are American.
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