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May 30
49m 36s

Curing All Disease with AI with Max Jade...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Can AI help us model biology down to the molecular level? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly learn about Nobel-prize-winning Alphafold, the protein folding problem, and how solving it could end disease with AI researcher, Max Jaderberg. 

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