#93 Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

Published: May 5, 2020, 8:08 p.m.

Daphne Koller is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng and Founder and CEO of insitro, a company at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine.
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\nEPISODE LINKS:
\nDaphne's Twitter: https://twitter.com/daphnekoller
\nDaphne's Website: https://ai.stanford.edu/users/koller/index.html
\nInsitro: http://insitro.com
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\nOUTLINE:
\n00:00 - Introduction
\n02:22 - Will we one day cure all disease?
\n06:31 - Longevity
\n10:16 - Role of machine learning in treating diseases
\n13:05 - A personal journey to medicine
\n16:25 - Insitro and disease-in-a-dish models
\n33:25 - What diseases can be helped with disease-in-a-dish approaches?
\n36:43 - Coursera and education
\n49:04 - Advice to people interested in AI
\n50:52 - Beautiful idea in deep learning
\n55:10 - Uncertainty in AI
\n58:29 - AGI and AI safety
\n1:06:52 - Are most people good?
\n1:09:04 - Meaning of life