Disease
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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Socher: Existing AI plus more compute can cure diseases and aging
“With existing technology and giving it more data and more compute, we can already cure a lot of diseases. We can already cure many of the aspects of aging. We can already build better fusion like reactors and systems. We can already create new materials.”
Rives: Curing disease requires personalized computational models, not conventional pills
“What is, you know, what is the cure to disease look like, right? It's not a pill, right? It's not a medicine in the conventional sense. You know, it's going to have to be a system that is capable of modeling and understanding, you know, the underlying physiolo…”
Deming: Society's failure to recognize aging as a disease hinders research
“I think longevity and aging kind of occupy this weird realm where because they're not like explicitly diseases in a way that's fully socially recognized yet, they're not seen as valid to work on.”
Dave Ricks: 230 diseases are linked to obesity and caloric imbalance
“230 diseases have been connected and you have these pr, these ones that are more like directly because of the caloric imbalance and fat accumulation.”
Belmonte: Age becomes the major disease risk factor after age 40 to 45
“After a certain number of years, around 40, 45, the major risk factor for getting any disease is precisely that, years, age.”
Inam: Dental practices record billed treatments rather than underlying diseases
“So the interesting thing about dentistry is that if you went to a dental practice and you wanted to query how many patients have cavities, you won't be able to query that because disease is not recorded in dental practices. Treatments are recorded, but disease…”
Horowitz: AI is humanity's best hope to solve disease and climate change
“AI and technology is the way out. It is the way to solve these problems. And you know, it's really kind of devastatingly scary that people would like undermine the one technology or the best hope for solving so many of these problems, disease et cetera.”