Kim Branson

8 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2024 by Kim Branson · across every show →

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Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Branson warns small model improvements do not justify enterprise switching costs
“For a lot of people's stuff, the 10% difference, they're like, I don't care. It's not worth the cost of me buying it and stuff.”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 21:40 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Branson predicts every drug launched by GSK will have accompanying software
“So every, every software, every drug VSK will launch will have software that sits around it. I think that's gonna be true of everybody, and there's, we're going to see, there's software that will sit around every drug, and we'll say, you know, who should use i…”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 24:44 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Insight
Branson argues random forests should be the baseline for all ML models
“They should be the baseline everyone should start with for everything, right? And you should always compare your information gain above a random forest that could be depressing for a long time.”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 19:47 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Branson argues precision curves matter more than AUC for enterprise AI
“The precision curve, right is really where it's at over AUC, but you gotta work out what you need to be at to make it meaningfully different”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 21:49 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Branson notes simple ML models yield most gains over complex ones
“Basically the simple stuff gets you there, and for the extra five percent gained, you need all the extra complexity. I think that is still true now.”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 20:27 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Branson predicts pharma will conduct fewer but more informative experiments by 2029
“So I think in five years time, what will happen is I think we'll be doing fewer experiments, but more informative experiments.”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 26:16 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Insight
Branson advises enterprise AI startups to win over engineers, not just users
“Because often there's the people who use it in a company, and then there's the people who have to operate it and run it, and how do we control for model drift and everything else, and so you're selling to a user But the people buying it and installing it that …”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 22:04 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Aug 1, 2024 negative
Opinion
GSK rejects AI biotech startups pitching only talent and algorithms
“And if your pitch is just like, oh, we've got smart people, give us your data, we'll do cool stuff. I'm like, well, I've got smart people too, right? That's not gonna happen.”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 18:52 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
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