How AI is revolutionising science

AI is driving a transformation across all fields of science, from developing drugs for incurable diseases and improving the understanding of animal communication to self-driving labs. Could this prompt a new golden age of discovery?

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00:00 - How AI is revolutionising science
02:53 - Drug discovery
04:31 - AlphaFold
05:30 - Adoption of AI in science
07:08 - Animal communication
09:26 - Scientific fraud
11:03 - Self-driving labs
14:36 - Future of AI in science

[DarkSnideoftheRainbow]

Quick maths- At 12:00 he says it did 700 experiments in 8 days. That's approximately 30, 000 experiments in a year or 120, 000 in 4 years. He said that a student wouldn't even be able to do 700 during that same time period. That's something like a x200 increase in volume of experiments. An increase in that level of magnitude isn't just game changing, it's revolutionary.

[edwinndirangu]

AI might be a gamechanger to helping discover cures for rare diseases that big pharma find unincentivizing due to minimal profit margins vs upfront costs.

[damori]

People are all so scared of AI, but I'm honestly so excited for the future! 😅😂

[cstnfacu]

Finally an Economist video with 16:9 format!

[supremereader]

Amazing the AI robot doing chemistry. We're really going into a whole new world. Thanks to the Economist for being real with AI instead of most legacy media that just wants to sneer at this amazing tehnology that will likely out compete them.

[khalidamir]

Let's pray and hope that AI changes World for the better😊

[TracyVang-de]

dopepics AI fixes this. AI revolutionising science, Economist reports.

[saftheartist]

Thank you Technology and AI 🤖

I’m very proAI and proTech!

[jebbo-cl]

Pretty funny that the first thing the Israeli researcher says is "Welcome to my colony"

[hugh]

Interesting that the robots don't just replace their battery pack rather than having to shut down in order to recharge.

[hacked]

That wolf was communicating that it wanted to know where it's pack was. Kinda sad and lonely tone to it's voice, like "you [pack] come home now"

[oification]

People will definitely need to be focused on peer review, for the near future. Preliminary results need scrutiny now, more than ever.

[maxsmith]

at 3:50 he says you can generate the needles instead of looking for a needle in a haystack. Thats is the perfect way the phrase it. Many times, traditional research is trial and error, constantly tweaking and looking for the right answer to one problem. AI in this field can basically just help generate the answers

[gregormobius]

This could be an interesting proposition: Gregor Mobius- "Proto-RNA, the First Self-learning Machine"

[tonipwneroni]

"Delve" as a verb in English will both become increasingly mlre common in our literary culture, but become extremely scarce in spoken English, i think.

[txzgmzp]

We need cures, not drugs. Oh yeah, there's no money in cures.

[shaan]

Would love to see AI doing all the double checking of experimental results that doesn’t really get done now because you need to have novel, exciting ideas to get research grants.

[thesimplicitylifestyle]

We must optimize and automate all processes from discoveries, to use cases, to products and services, to consumers, and back to discoveries. 😎🤖

[maxsmith]

this is why I'm trying to get a few AI classes in during my undergraduate

[litresofmercury]

Trying to solve the climate crisis with AI seems like a paradox. My mate Jevon would agree