AI for science - DeepMind: The Podcast (S2, Ep6)

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Published 2022-02-16
Step inside DeepMind's laboratories and you'll find researchers studying DNA to understand the mysteries of life, seeking new ways to use nuclear energy, or putting AI to the test in mind-bending areas of maths. In this episode, Hannah meets Pushmeet Kohli, the head of science at DeepMind, to understand how AI is accelerating scientific progress. Listeners also join Hannah on a [virtual] safari in the Serengeti in East Africa to find out how researchers are using AI to conserve wildlife in one of the world’s most spectacular ecosystems.

For questions or feedback on the series, message us on Twitter @DeepMind or email [email protected].

Interviewees: DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Pushmeet Kohli & Sarah Jane Dunn; Meredith Palmer of the Princeton University

Credits
Presenter: Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Production support: Jill Achineku
Sounds design: Emma Barnaby
Music composition: Eleni Shaw
Sound Engineer: Nigel Appleton
Editor: David Prest
Commissioned by DeepMind

Thank you to everyone who made this season possible!

Further reading:
Using AI for scientific discovery, DeepMind: deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-s…
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on its breakthrough scientific discoveries, WIRED:    • DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on its brea...  
The AI revolution in scientific research, The Royal Society: royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/ai-and-so…
DOE Explains...Tokamaks, Office of Science: www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainstokamaks
How AI Accidentally Learned Ecology by Playing StarCraft, Discover: www.discovermagazine.com/technology/how-ai-acciden…
Google AI can identify wildlife from trap-camera footage, VentureBeat:
venturebeat.com/2019/12/17/googles-ai-can-identify…
Snapshot Serengeti, Zooniverse:
www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/snapshot-se…
The Human Genome Project, National Human Genome Research Institute: www.genome.gov/human-genome-project
Exploring the beauty of pure mathematics in novel ways, DeepMind: deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-…
Predicting gene expression with AI, DeepMind: deepmind.com/blog/article/enformer
Using machine learning to accelerate ecological research, DeepMind: deepmind.com/blog/article/using-machine-learning-t…
Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control, DeepMind: deepmind.com/blog/article/Accelerating-fusion-scie…
Simulating matter on the quantum scale with AI, DeepMind: deepmind.com/blog/article/Simulating-matter-on-the…
How AI is helping the natural sciences, Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02762-6
Inside DeepMind's epic mission to solve science's trickiest problem, WIRED: www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-protein-folding
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science, Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/how-artificial-intelligence…

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All Comments (17)
  • @edwardyorke5830
    Hannah Fry is PERFECTION in applying the rules of PUBLIC SPEAKING 101: "10 points off for every pause with an uhh". As a speaker she is MESMERIZING, especially with her adorable English accent :-)
  • @sergeyscobich
    Podcast is good, but if you enhance this with animations it will be much better. This content should be on top of youtube. People really dont appreciate science enough. Earth have people living in dark ages and science fiction at the same time in different places. The more science advance the more superiority some people get over others. Anyway great work Deepmind and all other people working in AI field and applications.
  • @tristanwegner
    Solving the root problem of the tree of knowledge - great metaphor an such a worthy endeavor. So impressed with the GraphCast Weather Forecast that DeepMind released Open Source!
  • @gregggo
    Great series! I love watching these. Especially the Season 2, I've learned a lot thanks to it. Thank you Hannah and DeepMind team <3!
  • @gregggo
    What does that triangle-like shape at the top right of a video represents?
  • @tonypike3123
    Henrietta Lacks Hela cells don't get old because the tolomeres on the chromozones don't decay and so they are immortal, image if this can be controlled
  • @tristanwegner
    The subtitles get "knot theory" wrong at "not theory". too bad youtube removed the ability for other users to suggest corrections.
  • @tonypike3123
    why is photogrammetry not 100% solved yet? Its f'ing hard that's why.
  • @tonypike3123
    How to create a biological computer that beats a quantum computer?