He Raised $70M to Cure Every Disease With AI | Samuel G. Rodriques, Edison Scientific

About this episode

Samuel Rodriques discusses his AI scientist Kosmos and its potential to cure diseases and solve aging.

Samuel Rodriques left physics because there were no unsolved problems left. Instead, he built an AI scientist named Kosmos to cure every disease, solve aging, and map the human brain. In this episode: The cure his AI proposed for blindness Why he would never touch a peptide Whether we'll need human scientists in 20 years What's stopping America in drug discovery Connect with us here: Samuel Rodriques Edison Scientific Lukas Biewald Weights & Biases

People in this episode

Host: Lukas Biewald

Guest: Samuel Rodriques

Topics covered

• AI
• healthcare
• drug discovery
• aging
• scientific innovation

Keywords

• AI scientist
• drug discovery
• blindness cure
• aging
• human brain mapping

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Organizations: Edison Scientific, Weights & Biases

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