"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
293 episodes
5 days ago
A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.
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A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.
The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co
AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
1 hour 24 minutes
1 month ago
AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
Jim Collins, Termeer Professor at MIT, unveils his AI-powered project that has discovered several new antibiotics, effective against resistant strains and often employing entirely new mechanisms of action. He details how their refined multi-step AI process, even with small datasets and modest compute, can efficiently screen vast chemical spaces to identify promising drug candidates. This breakthrough offers a realistic and affordable path to tackling the staggering antibiotic resistance crisis, which currently claims over a million lives annually. Collins argues this practical application of AI represents a transformative win for humanity, often overlooked amidst the focus on AGI.
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) About the Episode
(04:30) Introducing Jim Collins
(05:26) Antibiotic Resistance Primer
(14:04) The Antibiotic Market Failure
(18:45) AI Discovers Halicin (Part 1)
(18:51) Sponsors: AssemblyAI Ad 1 | Claude
(22:11) AI Discovers Halicin (Part 2)
(30:58) The Economics of Discovery
(39:10) Inside the AI Architecture (Part 1)
(39:17) Sponsors: Linear | AGNTCY | Shopify
(43:47) Inside the AI Architecture (Part 2)
(01:00:13) Human-in-the-Loop Discovery
(01:12:12) Novel Mechanisms & Properties
(01:19:02) Future Applications & Risks
(01:27:01) A Call to Action
(01:28:04) Outro
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.
The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co
