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The Times Tech Podcast

Pangea Biomed’s Ranit Aharonov: “Cancer-hunting AI”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ranit Aharonov to talk about this moment for artificial intelligence (3:15), studying the brain (6:30), Project Debater (8:30), neural networks (11:30), language’s AlphaGo moment (14:50), the big idea at Pangea (19:20), getting it into the hands of doctors and drug communities (23:25), the role of AI in this tool (26:15), the regulatory limits (32:15), and why she didn't debate the AI she created (37:25).

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0:00.0

Yeah.

0:01.9

Technology.

0:02.9

What is it all about?

0:04.5

And we said maybe we can skip this whole expensive and long process of really measuring the RNA and use AI, deep learning, to look at this image.

0:14.6

Really a simple image that a pathologist looks at that costs zero dollars and understand which genes are upregulated, which genes are

0:23.6

downregulated, and from that directly from this image predict the response to treatment.

0:30.0

And this is where we see the next step in AI, without AI or even two years ago, I think

0:35.5

this would have been impossible to do.

0:51.4

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.

0:58.9

I am your host, Danny Ford's in the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.

1:06.8

And this week, we're going to cover the gamut, the AI gamut from computers that debate humans and sometimes win, sometimes lose.

1:10.5

And cancer hunting AI and everything in between.

1:12.6

On today's show, we have a woman who is in the center of it all. Her name is Ranit Ahoranov. She is a computational neuroscientist and chief

1:20.0

technology officer of a company called Pangia Biomed. They're a startup using AI to target cancer

1:26.3

treatments, especially for people who have very difficult,

1:29.7

very aggressive cancers for which there are not a lot of obvious cures. And I want to have

1:34.1

her on because there, you know, there's a lot of hand waving about how AI is going to change

1:38.0

everything. Medicine at your fingertips. An AI doctor in your pocket. That's better than any

1:42.7

doctor on planet Earth etc it's rolled

1:45.7

out as kind of one of these big prizes almost the big prize of AI and pangio which is based in

1:51.0

israel is right in the engine room here using AI for a very specific purpose and it appears potentially

1:57.4

you're having hugely dramatic results when it comes to figuring out which

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