#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning

Lex Fridman Podcast

• Episode: #93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
• Website: Lex Fridman Podcast
• Feed URL: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/
• Duration: 01:12:31
• Published: 2020-05-05 22:08

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 sponsors: – Cash App – use code “LexPodcast” and download: – Cash App (App Store): https://apple.co/2sPrUHe – Cash App (Google Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w EPISODE LINKS: Daphne's Twitter: https://twitter.com/daphnekoller Daphne's Website: https://ai.stanford.edu/users/koller/index.html Insitro: http://insitro.com This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. Here's 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