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How to google your symptoms without freaking out | John Whyte

Why does searching your symptoms online always leave you more frightened than before? As former chief medical officer of WebMD, physician John Whyte spent years believing more information meant better health — until he saw how too much of it was making people spiral. In a world o ... Show More

15m 6s

Apr 26

Sunday Pick: Min Jin Lee | from Design Matters

The author of the award-winning novels “Pachinko” and “Free Food for Millionaires,” Min Jin Lee, discusses her remarkable career and the long journey and intention behind her Korean diaspora novels.Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/po ... Show More

1h 12m

Apr 25

What you discover when you really listen | Hrishikesh Hirway (re-release and interview)

“Every conversation has the potential to open up and reveal all the layers and layers within it, all those rooms within rooms," says musician and host of the beloved podcast Song Exploder, Hrishikesh Hirway. In this profoundly moving talk from 2022, he offers a guide to deep conv ... Show More

50m 20s

Mar 2025

How AI is saving billions of years of human research time | Max Jaderberg

Can AI compress the years long research time of a PhD into seconds? Research scientist Max Jaderberg explores how “AI analogs” simulate real-world lab work with staggering speed and scale, unlocking new insights on protein folding and drug discovery. Drawing on his experience wor ... Show More

19m 15s

Feb 2025

Understanding AI's Expanding Role in Drug Discovery and Life Sciences R&D - Liran Belenzon of BenchSci

<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Today's guest is Liran Belenzon, Co-founder and CEO of BenchSci. BenchSci is a global leader in AI solutions for preclinical R&D that helps decipher complex biomedical research using proprietary technology. Liran joins us to discuss how AI is ... Show More

19m 3s

Nov 2025

How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara

Bringing new drugs to market is a costly, time-consuming endeavor. On top of that, most medicines fail at some point in the research and development phase. Sarah Guo is joined by Sajith Wickramasekara, co-founder and CEO of Benchling, a company that has not only become the centra ... Show More

48m 13s

May 2023

The AI Will See You Now: Exploring Biomedical AI and Google’s Med-PaLM2 With Karan Singhal

What if AI could revolutionize healthcare with advanced language learning models? Sarah and Elad welcome Karan Singhal, Staff Software Engineer at Google Research, who specializes in medical AI and the development of MedPaLM2. On this episode, Karan emphasizes the importance of s ... Show More

42m 48s

Sep 2025

From AlphaFold to MMseqs2-GPU: How AI is Accelerating Protein Science - Ep. 273

Listen as two leading researchers at the cutting edge of computational biology explore breakthrough GPU accelerations that are changing how we understand life's molecular machinery. Chris Dallago, Research Lead at NVIDIA and Visiting Professor at Duke University, and Martin Stein ... Show More

34m 37s

Oct 2025

Humans&: Bridging IQ and EQ in Machine Learning with Eric Zelikman

The AI industry is obsessed with making models smarter. But what if they’re building the wrong kind of intelligence? In launching his new venture, humans&, Eric Zelikman sees an opportunity to shift the focus from pure IQ to building models with EQ. Sarah Guo is joined by Eric Ze ... Show More

36m 58s

Oct 2025

When Will AI Make Scientific Discoveries?

Today’s AI Daily Brief asks when artificial intelligence will begin making real scientific discoveries. We look at Periodic Labs, which just raised more than $300 million to build AI scientists and autonomous labs for physics and chemistry, and Thinking Machines, which is creatin ... Show More

24m 25s

Apr 2025

Isomorphic Labs Discusses AI-Driven Drug Discovery and the Future of Medicine - Ep. 252

Max Jaderberg and Sergei Yakneen from Isomorphic Labs discuss how AI is enhancing drug discovery by treating biology as an information processing system. They share how advanced AI models like AlphaFold 3 are accelerating the pipeline and paving the way for a future of precision ... Show More

39m 25s

Feb 2022

AI for science

Step inside DeepMind's laboratories and you'll find researchers studying DNA to understand the mysteries of life, seeking new ways to use nuclear energy, or putting AI to the test in mind-bending areas of maths. In this episode, Hannah meets Pushmeet Kohli, the head of science at ... Show More

33m 52s

Feb 2025

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

Satya Nadella on: Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth; Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models;Whether Office commoditizes LLMs or the other way around. Watch on Youtube; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.-------- ... Show More

1h 16m

How AI is saving billions of years of hu...