Daphne Koller is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, a co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng and Founder and CEO of insitro, a company at the intersection of machine learning and biomedicine.

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Daphne’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/daphnekoller

Daphne’s Website: https://ai.stanford.edu/users/koller/index.html

Insitro: http://insitro.com

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

02:22 – Will we one day cure all disease?

06:31 – Longevity

10:16 – Role of machine learning in treating diseases

13:05 – A personal journey to medicine

16:25 – Insitro and disease-in-a-dish models

33:25 – What diseases can be helped with disease-in-a-dish approaches?

36:43 – Coursera and education

49:04 – Advice to people interested in AI

50:52 – Beautiful idea in deep learning

55:10 – Uncertainty in AI

58:29 – AGI and AI safety

1:06:52 – Are most people good?

1:09:04 – Meaning of life