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AI-Powered Biological Software with Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO of Inceptive

"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to discuss how deep learning is expanding the horizons of RNA and mRNA therapeutics. Jakob co-authored the revolutionary paper Attention is All You Need while at Google, and led early Google Translate and Google Assistant teams. Now at Inceptive, he's applying these same architectures and ideas to biological design, optimizing vaccine production, and magnitude-more efficient drug discovery. We also discuss Jakob's perspective on promising research directions, and his point of view that model architectures will actually get simpler from here, and be driven by hardware. Show Links: Inceptive - CEO & Founder - Jakob Uszkoreit | LinkedIn Inceptive Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @kyosu Show Notes: (0:00:00) - Creating Biological Software (0:06:54) - The Hardware Drivers of Large-Scale Transformers (0:14:32) - Challenges in Optimizing Compute Allocation (0:23:25) - Deep Learning in Biology and RNA (0:32:49) - The Future of Drug Discovery (0:41:41) - Collaboration and Innovation at Inceptive

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"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to discuss how deep learning is expanding the horizons of RNA and mRNA therapeutics.

Jakob co-authored the revolutionary paper Attention is All You Need while at Google, and led early Google Translate and Google Assistant teams. Now at Inceptive, he's applying these same architectures and ideas to biological design, optimizing vaccine production, and magnitude-more efficient drug discovery. We also discuss Jakob's perspective on promising research directions, and his point of view that model architectures will actually get simpler from here, and be driven by hardware.


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Show Notes: 

(0:00:00) - Creating Biological Software

(0:06:54) - The Hardware Drivers of Large-Scale Transformers

(0:14:32) - Challenges in Optimizing Compute Allocation

(0:23:25) - Deep Learning in Biology and RNA

(0:32:49) - The Future of Drug Discovery

(0:41:41) - Collaboration and Innovation at Inceptive

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