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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Role of Machine Learning in AI in Developing Viruses

There's nothing in the world that's really not at its most basic level, positive, negative. You can figure it out with enough computational power and enough. In this case, machine learning is just one way to learn rules. We're doing it in our molecules all the time for specific uses. Oftentimes, we take them from nature and then tweak them. But now we can supercharge it. To not have it just be discovery, we have it be true ground up engineering. There's no doubt in my mind that we will develop.

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