Raising Health Past, Present, and Future of AI with Vijay Pande
Jan 9, 2024
Vijay Pande, founding partner of Bio + Health, discusses the evolution of AI, the pioneers in the field, and the shift to biology. He highlights the advancements in biology, the challenges of obtaining data, and the importance of multiple perspectives in understanding cells. The podcast also explores the opportunities in AI startups and how AI is being integrated into life sciences and healthcare companies.
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Machine Learning Replaced Rule-Based AI
- Early AI was dominated by expert systems and logic, not numerical methods.
- Daphne Koller explains machine learning later became central as numerical approaches proved powerful.
Folding@home Pioneered Distributed Science
- Vijay Pande launched Folding@home in 2000 to run large distributed simulations on volunteers' machines.
- He highlights early GPU use and combining physics simulations with data for drug-design problems.
Scale And Simplicity Beat Complexity
- Jakob Uszkoreit and team prioritized massive data and simple scalable models over complex algorithms.
- Simplifying architectures to train on far more data repeatedly outperformed more sophisticated models.