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🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on James Field, founder of LabGenius, to talk about taking humans out of drug discovery (2:15), working in a biscuit factory (4:20), how artificial intelligence can revolutionise research (6:25), the inevitability of “designing humans” (8:10), the moral quandaries that generates (10:25), the dramatic improvements in AI (13:35), breaking free of human cognition (15:35), what happens to the human race when we live longer and healthier (16:00), and discovering and testing drugs autonomously (17:55).
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0:36.8 | It is another week. But before we get today's show, I have one bit of housekeeping. You may remember that a few weeks ago I mentioned The Pivot, which is our new documentary series that we are pulling together on Silicon Valley. Well, that is coming to your ears very, very soon. However, it's going to be |
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1:19.8 | this week's show. Yo, technology. What is it all about? Now that whole process of scientific discovery is being done by AI and robotics. |
1:30.3 | And in my mind, this is probably the most important thing that is going on right now for humanity. |
1:37.3 | And people are only just waking up to that now. |
1:54.1 | This week on the program, we are talking about the future of humanity because why not i sat down with james field who's the founder of lab genius a london based startup that uses artificial intelligence |
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