#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

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. Support this podcast by signing up with these
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the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be
able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 -
Introduction 02:22 - Will we one day cure all disease? 06:31 -
Longevity 10:16 - Role of machine learning in treating diseases
13:05 - A personal journey to medicine 16:25 - Insitro and
disease-in-a-dish models 33:25 - What diseases can be helped with
disease-in-a-dish approaches? 36:43 - Coursera and education 49:04
- Advice to people interested in AI 50:52 - Beautiful idea in deep
learning 55:10 - Uncertainty in AI 58:29 - AGI and AI safety
1:06:52 - Are most people good? 1:09:04 - Meaning of life