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He Raised $70M to Cure Every Disease With AI | Samuel G. Rodriques, Edison Scientific
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Lukas Biewald hosts Samuel G. Rodriques on Gradient Dissent to discuss using AI to cure diseases. Rodriques left physics for AI, creating Kosmos to solve aging and map the brain. The episode covers AI's proposed cure for blindness, the future of human scientists, and barriers to American drug discovery.
An AI scientist named Kosmos is being built to find cures for diseases and understand the human brain. The episode discusses how this AI proposed a cure for blindness and what it means for the future of medicine.
This episode offers insight into ambitious AI applications beyond current models. It's for anyone interested in AI's potential impact on healthcare and scientific discovery. Listeners will learn how AI is being developed for complex biological problems, a frontier that major labs like Google Gemini and Anthropic are also exploring through advanced research.
- HostLukas Biewald
- GuestSamuel G. RodriquesEdison Scientific
- Guest: Samuel G. Rodriques, Edison Scientific
- Show: Gradient Dissent
- Length: 75 minutes
- Funding: $70M
- AI Project: Kosmos
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Samuel Rodriques left physics because there were no unsolved problems left.
Instead, he built an AI scientist named Kosmos to cure every disease, solve aging, and map the human brain.
In this episode:
- The cure his AI proposed for blindness
- Why he would never touch a peptide
- Whether we'll need human scientists in 20 years
- What's stopping America in drug discovery
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Questions people ask
- What is Kosmos?
- Kosmos is an AI scientist created by Samuel Rodriques to cure diseases, solve aging, and map the human brain.
- What did Rodriques leave physics for?
- Rodriques left physics because he felt there were no more unsolved problems left in the field.
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