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▶ 36:08 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, alpha folds, I, I know it's been kind of talked about forever, but like some of this person, these personalized healthcare examples that you're getting, you know, maybe it's not cure.

▶ 40:25 Alex Kantrowitz Like the craziest story where this guy, I'm going to get some detail wrong, but a guy, um, biopsied his dog, which had cancer, um, ran the mutations across, across alpha fold, and then was able to design an mRNA vaccine that he injected…

▶ 3:42:00 Alex Kantrowitz Like the craziest story where this guy, I'm going to get some detail wrong, but a guy biopsied his dog, which had cancer, ran the mutations across across AlphaFold and then was able to design an mRNA vaccine that he injected into the dog.

▶ 4:12 Lila Ibrahim Um, how do we do alpha fold and protein structure prediction to help us better understand diseases so we can come up with better therapeutics.
▶ 24:32 James Manyika I mean, alpha four is a good example, right?
▶ 40:58 Lila Ibrahim It goes back to what are some of the root node problems, uh, that we might, uh, if IEI can help us unlock, um, a basic understanding of the universe around us, it can open an entire field for ourselves and other researchers to build upon…

▶ 3:54 Demis Hassabis You know, AlphaFold, AlphaGo are examples of that, so some of our most important work, um, combines neural networks and deep learning with things like Monte Carlo Tree Search.
▶ 7:33 Demis Hassabis You know, not solving something in physics or some bit of chemistry, some problem, even like alpha folds, you know, protein folding, but actually coming up with a new theory of physics, something like, um, you know, like Einstein did with…
▶ 20:58 Demis Hassabis AI's gone, already proved that enough, I would say, and, and our work, I think, in things like science and our, and alpha fold and drug discovery, that it's here to stay.
▶ 28:57 Demis Hassabis Is because of things like AlphaGo and AlphaFold, especially AlphaFold, where, you know, we solved all the protein structures that are kind of known to science, and how have we done that?
▶ 29:52 Alex Kantrowitz There's this moment where there's a discussion in the lab about whether to release the results of alpha folds, and you kind of sit there adamantly, and you're like, why are we going through a process? 5 times in the scene

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