AI: Supercharging Scientific Exploration with Pushmeet Kohli

In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Science Research at Google DeepMind to discuss AI’s impact on scientific discovery. They go on a whirlwind tour of scientific projects, touching on recent breakthroughs in #alphafold, material science, weather forecasting, and mathematics to better understand how AI can enhance our scientific understanding of the world.

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:13 AlphaFold
06:13 AlphaFold Database
08:14 Weather forecasting
11:24 Creating new materials with deep learning
25:10 Imposter syndrome, being a generalist, and Nobel prize winners
31:21 Choosing the right projects
32:07 Root node problems
34:32 Large language models for science
36:06 Function search and algorithmic discovery
42:10 Math olympiad
46:26 What is coming next
48:35 Reflections from Hannah

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Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Editor: Rami Tzabar, TellTale Studios
Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif
Music composition: Eleni Shaw

Camera Director and Video Editor: Tommy Bruce
Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin
Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke
Video Editor: Bilal Merhi
Video Production Design: James Barton
Visual Identity and Design: Eleanor Tomlinson
Production support: Mo Dawoud
Commissioned by Google DeepMind

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#nobelprize2024 #nobelprize #alphafold #protein

[dmitryrybin]

Every paper of Pushmeet Kholi that i read is amazing and delivers new scientific knowledge.

[SushantRai-ejtf]

What a perfect time to drop this Congratulations on the Nobel Prize deepmind team!

[gbrailsford]

The promise of AI is sometimes lost in the media coverage about potential but largely speculative risks. This was such a a delightful interview about how the technology is starting have immensely positive impacts today, and how it will continue to assist with transformative discoveries tomorrow. Hannah's description of the once in a generation shifts that will soon cascade upon us across multiple domains made my skin tingle!

[MichealScott]

❤thanks google for this preety nerdy podcastsss. : ) and also the efforts of host and pushmeet and complete crew and all the google teams incredibly grateful to get all these insights❤

[VR_Wizard]

This guy is gold so nice listening to him talk about his job.

[mikelastname]

I love Pushmeet's bravery in tackling all of the different science domains to bring AI/ML to bear for the benefit of humanity. Fascinating!

[que_]

Incredibly intoxicatingly interesting conversation this was... Great set of questions which were brilliantly answered and were astoundingly insightful. Thank you!

[jac]

Please make Professor Hanna Fry the new voice of all future google ai's! 😍

[alph]

First of all, congratulations to Demis Hassabis on receiving the award.
While some have questioned Professor Hinton's award, there is no doubt about DeepMind's achievements.

[KiteTurbine]

Looking forward to when we can use AI for exploring design space and material capabilities in mechanical and aero engineering for airborne wind energy

[CodexPermutatio]

The exponential growth of scientific progress is becoming more and more evident in the era of AI.

[subhajitsarkar]

please make a documentary on alphafold like alphago, it would be amazing...

[s.sasquatch]

4:45 it's like giving a postman traveling the silk road to deliver messages is halfway down then gets a telephone and thinks what am I supposed to do now

[tomenglish]

I saw remarks from Google higher-ups that LLMs were bullshitting, with appropriate references to Harry Frankfurt's philosophical essay "On Bullshit, " long before I saw anyone use the term "hallucination." If "bullshit" offends you, then go with "confabulation" instead. It makes much better sense than "hallucination."

[faisalmumtaz]

This is such a fun discussion. You can tell both are incredibly passionate about the topic.

[Charles-Darwin]

Wow some of these topics are astounding. Keep bringing the goods

[BrianMosleyUK]

Congratulations Demis Hassibis for your Nobel Prize in Biology for Alpha Fold. Incredible.

[kotonekkotonowski]

This is the right guy in the right place to bring us better future

[Dr.UldenWascht]

What a beautiful and fantastic name the word Pushmeet is. I'm going to use it in regular conversations from now on.

[cmthimmaiah]

Such an amazing interview, and hats off to the host, for the really deep and insightful questions