AI: Supercharging Scientific Exploration with Pushmeet Kohli

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Research at Google DeepMind to discuss AI’s impact on scientific discovery. They go on a whirlwind tour of scientific projects, touching on recent breakthroughs in AlphaFold, material science, weather forecasting, and mathematics to better understand how AI can enhance our scientific understanding of the world.

Further reading:

• Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning
• GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting
• AlphaFold: A breakthrough unfolds (S2,E1)
• AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
• AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems

Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry

Series Producer: Dan Hardoon

Editor: Rami Tzabar, TellTale Studios

Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif

Music composition: Eleni Shaw

Camera Director and Video Editor: Tommy Bruce

Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin

Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke

Video Editor: Bilal Merhi

Video Production Design: James Barton

Visual Identity and Design: Eleanor Tomlinson

Production support: Mo Dawoud

Commissioned by Google DeepMind

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