AI for Science with Sir Paul Nurse, Demis Hassabis, Jennifer Doudna, and John Jumper

[@aidinfakoor9807]

I mean why google doesn't use Professor Hannah Fry's beautiful voice in Gemini live?

[@Heavenlight100]

true

[@ThanosSofroniou]

Because that would be discriminatory towards other beautiful voices. At least that's what google would say

[@timoooo7320]

She's 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@GlenMcNiel]

Thank you. I’m grateful that conversations like this are accessible to mere mortals like me.

[@GeorgeMonsour]

I love Hassabis' appreciation of the scientific method. The scientific method effectively is or brings consciousness to civilization. The organization of humane civilization depends on it transcending the unconscious civilization and need for governments. Our genetic potential for cooperation is primitive still. Vision and thought raised through this process will eventually wean the bully out of our nature if we can get past the chasm of narcissism infecting current culture.

[@85331Louis]

George, you beautifully describe how salient the scientific method is essential to our culture and the basis of critical thinking, Unfortunaately all to many people that I come in cntact with not take the time to first look at or understand the data before blurting out some inane statement.

[@En1Gm4A]

Demis definetly understood that knowledge is structured in a graph or tree like way. Thats a win for society :-D Lets go ! Hyped for a decade of discovery

[@En1Gm4A]

Google is realy pushing the game in terms of Interviews and podcasts - great communication - much more information dense as OpenAI

[@Feel_theagi]

Agreed but they are both closed even Demis has said they can't release as much publicly as they did before because of exploitation from competitors

[@praxis22]

Knowing that Demis has the same opinion of Quantum computing as I do is gratifying. Good interview.

[@halneufmille]

Same here. I also had the same ideas for creating AlphaFold a couple of years ago, but I was busy with other stuff.

[@wendyburgers7159]

@@halneufmille 🤣🤣🤣 I laughed out loud, thank you 😁

[@citizen_of_earth_]

Thank you, Hanna, for everything you do to educate the public about the amazing future we have ahead of us. Keep up the good work! It inspires me to want to contribute, as it probably does to many other people.

[@BestFitSquareChannel]

Remarkable panel! Humility. Self-deprecating, humorous human beings. Brilliant. A privilege. Grateful. Thank you to the panel, the wonderful host, all who made possible this publication. 🌞🤸🏽‍♂️🫶🏼🖖🏼🙏🏼 PS: Interdisciplinary teams a promising framework.

[@bpolat]

Thank you. Wonderful panel.

[@ramonarobot]

Finally, a popular AI figure who doesn’t say “like” after every few words.

[@rachel_rexxx]

This was really enjoyable, thanks

[@LoisSharbel]

This podcast is a gift to everyone! Thank you for sharing your brilliance in such an accessible way to encourage everyone to open our minds to new ideas and fresher patterns of thinking. Stimulating!!!

[@BlackHermit]

I thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks

[@jhoncharlesdf.1599]

I think that the project for Alpha go was the main trigger to discover all about alphafold, just for many reasons, maybe one the big cuantitativa of combination you can make a next step but with the concept to link with the step before!😮

[@user-fd7jd4jq1e]

We are so back with the semi conductors

[@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu]

Good stuff, these are good points.

[@aiforculture]

Love this! Brilliant discussions. (I also suspect I would not have fared well in that poker game Demis described.)

[@VR_Wizard]

About the africa not included question. I heard from my university prof. that he stoped accepting people from some of the imerging countries because of the nagoya protocol. He said it leads to currupt countries demanding money from him for accepting applicants. I am not sure how this works exactly I am not so deep in scie.ce politics but I heard mostly bad things about the politics influencing science freedome by putting price tags on it possibly with good intentions when it comes to big companies paying some of their eye watering profits but at the same time hurting scientist who do these collaborating projects as a side project out of generousity now being flodded with extra work and cost they simply have no time for. So maybe some regulation should be revisited to make science exchange easier not harder.

[@gregormobius]

This could be an interesting proposition: Gregor Mobius - "Proto-RNA, the First Self-learning Machine"

[@marianm.6926]

Inspiring! Thank you.

[@MrExo_3D]

Great video quality

[@ClayMann]

That was so good. I do read a lot of negative stuff around A.I despite trying really hard to find the positives. Because its a subject I've loved all my life just for the exciting fun of it. And now I see just what it can really do. So talks like this help re-focus you onto the idea that this is amazing. Its fun, its wildly exciting. we obviously need to take care because there are dangers for the people working in these fields to misuse the breakthroughs. But everything can be misused so lets not focus too much on that such that it squashes peoples passion for what is coming for all of us with the help of A.I

[@sslaia]

O gosh, I wish I were 18 year old. I'd study eager and harder and can one day be useful for humanity.

[@Mohamed1475]

Great conversation

[@sntk1]

I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it. ~Turing The sense-object is the simplest permanence which we trace as self-identical in external events. It is some definite sense-datum, such as the color red of a definite shade. We see redness here and the same redness there, redness then and the same redness now. In other words, we perceive redness in the same relation to various definite events, and it is the same redness which we perceive. Tastes, colors, sounds, and every variety of sensation are objects of this sort. ~Whitehead It is a most beautiful and awe-inspiring fact that all the fundamental laws of classical physics can be understood in terms of one mathematical construct called the _action._ It yields the classical equations of motion, and analysis of its invariances leads to quantities conserved in the course of the classical motion. In addition, as Dirac and Feynman have shown, the action acquires its full importance in quantum physics. ~Ramond

[@sidnath7336]

13:00-14:00 I think a collaboration with Stephen Wolfram would really work for this - excellent chance to dive deeper in geometry, cellular automata and computation.

[@SanjeevReddyBora]

Pretty inspiring conversation

[@Highway_Star404]

Always interesting...

[@Rholfy]

Really, it was very surreal, to give a Nobel Prize in Chemistry to an engineer who is very cool, but not a Chemist!

[@SONALI-w2s]

Brilliant !!

[@darwinlaluna3677]

Hmmm, thanks for the hint

[@MitchellPorter2025]

43:35 Wilfred Ndifon asks the question about AGI exceeding human intelligence, Demis Hassabis nodded, but as far as I can tell that question was never answered

[@alirezahekmati7632]

Gold!

[@alexandermoody1946]

Having such aspirational considerations as will alphafold become a core technology in producing conscious observable biology? Will progression in fusion understanding facilitate the creation with energy of any and all elemental matter? Alphafold makes observation critical in biology. Then equally I also should be careful of making false assumptions, perhaps time will tell or perhaps time will not tell and that is part and parcel of the secrets the universe contains. Questions.

[@SamanBeachHikkaduwa]

Great... 🙋‍♂️🎵

[@user-fd7jd4jq1e]

Demis is my hero

[@jimj2683]

We need 1 trillion orders of magnitude greater compute power to even begin to achieve what he is saying here. That is still 100+ years away (assuming Moore's law even continues).

[@HajimeKAWAHARA]

🎉 Great!

[@restrollar8548]

Absolute BS that Demis didn't know that the Nobel was coming. He strategically placed all Nobel laureates (two here on the panel) in his scientific advisory board for Isomorphic labs. Of course he wanted, and expected (and knew) it had been nominated, especially given he had won the Lasker (orchestrated by Paul Nurse).

[@elliptictree]

Interesting

[@MichealScott24]

❤

[@pacanosiu]

faster please

[@canonest]

He's gonna skip AI and build synthetic humans.

[@ThePantygun]

DupeMind.

[@7_of_9]

Make it accessible to the public

[@juleswombat5309]

I mean the algorithms, and code, are accessible to everyone. (See Hugging face) The problem is getting access to vast amounts of data and the compute for the ground braking stuff. But you can still achieve useful specific stuff with moderate compute and limited data.

[@RehanKha-x2h]

Hacked all data and device

[@simonFellows-p3c]

I'm not a smart person by societies definition. What I find staggering about such talks and people is that all these talks, Nobel prizes n status n power they all have and however well meaning they don't mention the utter devastation of insects and the biosphere. To me it's as if they're talking about remodelling the building, ie culture and ourselves, in myriad complex ways and yet simultaneously forgetting that the absolute foundations,Mother Earth and "the little things" are fine, healthy and in abundance which we all know is exactly the opposite. They represent the pinnacle of human disembodiment. Attributed correctly /not to Chief Seathle he knew the white man was "crazy" because they said they thought with their heads.

[@learnbydoingwithsteven]

When will LLM and transformers become the past? Maybe sooner than we imagined.

[@byrnemeister2008]

Well they are part of many solutions. You can see already that people are starting to augment them with other techniques. Like test time compute or test time training. There are no doubt many other techniques in development.

[@reluctantrealist6861]

why is this woman everywhere?

[@zackmartin00]

Because she is awesome!

[@reluctantrealist6861]

@@zackmartin00 nah she's being astroturfed as "science woman"

[@takyon24]

@@reluctantrealist6861 probably cause she's a mathematician and science communicator?

[@reluctantrealist6861]

@@takyon24 yes and a woman

[@jeremymanson1781]

​@@reluctantrealist6861 don't air your personal issues in public its embarrassing.