This was amazing. It was refreshing to listen to people outside tech and tech companies talk about generative AI. We need more people from other fields to tell us about how Gen AI is helping or contributing to those fields.
@@robertmeyers2916 it won't come up with anything by itself. It's us to guide it and use it's strengths to come up with things.. It's a tool remember. Just like a calculator or a farm tractor. It's us to use it and do incredible things.
I am impressed. Very smooth, simplified, yet elegant explanation of complex topic that a average person can understand. Very good presentation. Please keep up the good work. Thank you.
This is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Life is an incredibly, complex, versatile process, and if AI can design any life form from its genetic material up, we need to seriously discuss the ethics of this technology and the potential implications, both good and bad, it could have for our future, before continuing to develop it uncritically. I can’t think of a more fitting situation to pack out the “with great power comes great responsibility” quote. If the promise of this tech does come to fruition, we also need to make sure this kind of miraculous medicine is distributed less unfairly than other medical technologies which have improved some people’s health outcomes, but remain entirely unavailable to others.
Bureaucracy has been stifling the progress of innovation since forever. People are dying and the world is improving at a much slower pace than is possible given the technological advancement we've had. I know your comment is motivated by altruistic values, but we must also have our priorities better representative of actual risks involved compared to value of progression. Lastly, the allocation of scarce resources is not an easy problem to solve, economics is no easy topic, especially when you factor in cultural differences, religion and so on. Capitalism is the best we have, unless you have another suggestion? (As in, please actually share solutions not just list the potential issues). If you haven't got any alternatives, I'd like you to at least take some time to understand the difficulties with economics and think of solutions- we are a collective and I believe our thoughts combine to alter our reality for the better or for worse dependent on what occupies the mind...
My thoughts exactly. Unfortunately, Once tech/ medical advances show promise in any military uses, Humans will almost always default to destroying each other before safety protocols are put in place. (Money+Power+Greed=Lack of Conscience+Lack of Consideration of Long Term Consequences) 🤷🏻♀️
This is very motivating. The potential for artificial intelligence to do great things is much higher when applied to biology, as opposed to entertainment, the workplace, etc. There are hundreds of ways that large tech companies will market the current state of AI technology to us, but what is that worth compared to curing disease?
This!! Absolutely, biological and also environmental science (e.g better climate predictions, recognition and tracking of symptoms, non medical bias, predictions of future weather evens, better carbon tracking predictions) I feel like everyone talks about it negatively but there are so many (just like this ted talk ) AMAZING things it could do to help humanity if we really really work on it
@@red..ridding..h00d Massive job displacement, malicious actors with superhuman powers to hack into critical infrastructure, deep fake technologies destroying an already frayed civil society, authoritarian governments super charged with real time data mining coupled with enhanced massive surveillance and social credit scoring systems...........exciting times!!!!!!! Oh, and no one in AI Tech has any clue how to control the ASI they are all working feverishly to develop!!! Then there is advancing field of neurotechnology that hardly anyone knows anything about. Have you checked out the mind reading tech being rapidly developed and just a few years away from deployment to consumers, corporations, governments of portable non invasive mind reading devices??? All powered by AI tech of course. Can't imagine how that will go wrong without regulation in place. Exciting times!!!!!!! If you want to learn more about the potential horrors of neurotech, search for a recent talk on the subject on the Stanford School of Law youtube channel.
Geoff this is incredible news, and you've discussed it here in such a positive and encouraging format. Thank you for sharing with your community and all of us
There will come a time in the not-so-distant future where we will be able to generate genome-specific care to the individual vs the broad options we have now. What a wonderful time to be alive!
Aside from the fact that I'm re-reading all of The Culture novels ... this is so how The Culture got started. Soon we'll have genofixed drug glands for your medical, enhancement, and pleasure needs. We'll all have drones for best friends, and massive inter-dimensional machine minds will design and generate entirely new biologies, life-forms, and ecosystems that are perfectly balanced for massive, continent sized ships. So - keep up the great work, I look forward to the results!
Quantum computers where expected to solve the biology riddle, simulating all the expected interactions but maybe deep learning can bring us there even quicker. Exciting times.
@@sirdiealot53 We see failed countries where people are so poor they do not get access even to basic medical interventions. So we live in this world basically since ever. But the oberall trend goes in the direction to better healthcare and education. Lets hope the day soon comes where every human on earth has acess to the latest medicin. Ai might be able to help providing everyone with education, lowering prices for medicin and food and in turn make us all richer profiting from the productivity and innovation created by lifting people out of poverty.
@@TheNewOriginals450 Yep.. People dont realize one the great problems in the next few decades is the shrinking of population. As industrialization happened it drove down birth rates to dramatic effect. All the worlds most powerful nations are facing this problem. Longevity and Rejuvenation will become matters of national security.
@@TheNewOriginals450 Nonsense. Are you just completely oblivious to the reality of the healthcare-denial-for-profit system in the US dominated by Big Insurers and Big Pharma? That millions of people in the US have zero access to affordable healthcare and that rarely even gets a mention of concern in most of our society by those who "have theirs"? The chances that such tech will be available for all is exactly zero.
few years back, when AI hype isn't transformers... they said AI can't do art, but now it can, now they said AI won't take your job away LOL i really want AI take all my jobs! so i can focus on learning, exploring and creating.... and maybe I'll teach what i know to AI and humans.
Exciting ideas. I look forward to some major medical breakthroughs that save many lives, stop so much suffering, and improve all of our lives for the better.
Yeah, things are no longer forever "ten years away" anymore. Demis Hassabis, not one to overhype his work, says new drugs will begin appearing in the next couple of years.
@@jeffkilgore6320 - instructed? The knowledge of how to make AI is now spread around the world. Not everybody is inclined to give it benevolent instructions. Notice how much malware there is to steal your financial details and scam you for money? World's full of crooks, and many of them have keyboards.
@@jeffkilgore6320 These models are jailbroken every single day. There is no regulation in place to require demonstrably safe models prior to deployment. Open sourcing of powerful models with parameters and weights like Meta has done makes your assurances essentially meaningless. Defending against malevolent use of various techs has always been challenging. We are entering an entirely different world in that regard with almost zero regulation in place reining in deployment of tech that is unprecedented in its power and potential for misuse.
I’ve always found stuff like this SO SO cool, If AI manages to crack DNA codes I kind of dig the theory that in the far far (hypothetical) future it might be able to recode people back into existence at least in regards to their original physical phenotype which is super out there (and impossible for a long long time/forever thankfully haha) but back down to earth I loved this TED talk so much 😭🫶🫶 I hope they keep researching this stuff it looks super promising and futuristic + could be really beneficial to the medical world
Gonna have to get age reversal treatment and keep living until it is possible to be regenerated from death like in Star Citizen, or perhaps get frozen in a cryo tank until that time comes.
@@UltraK420 haha I definitely don’t want to be here if AI manages to bring people back 😵💫 infinity sound awful (especially in this economy hehe) but it’s a super cool concept, especially if we start teaching a.i to recognise codons. Also it would be cool to imagine how it would recode your personal memories into existence (environmental ones not genetically inherited survival instincts) if brains are neurons then maybe it could use electrical impulses to try and stimulate the right neuro pathways? Idk 😭😭 it’s SUCH a cool concept though
@@red..ridding..h00d Yeah, I think your brain would have to be reconstructed exactly as it was. Perhaps all we need to do is a full genetic regeneration and the person's unique DNA/RNA sequences will trigger the growth of the exact brain for that body and the corresponding mind that developed from it, the specific mind unique only to that genetic sequence. I'm not exactly sure it works that way but I suspect it does. I think I'll talk some more with GPT-4o about this as well, lol.
The one thing he didn't address with his drop of water analogy is that organisms are made up of a very delicate balance of proteins in complex systems that have evolved in parallel to provide organism wide homeostasis. Before we start expanding to the second drop of water, we need to carefully consider the larger systems that we're tampering with at the organism level and beyond (ecosystems etc) and make sure the AI systems see the whole picture before fiddling with the knobs of nature.
“Faster biology than mother nature has ever known”… somehow doesn’t sound like a fantastic thing for things that have been the product of mother nature up to this point.
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun." ~Morpheus, 'The Matrix'
Personally I find customised offline somewhat akin to having a roomful of graduate scientists with a year or 2 working experience in every field, to bounce ideas off. I live and work in international waters, and my main concern is that the clunky obsolete AI I managed to Frankenstein into existence (I am no software engineer, and I am not rich) provided a lab protocol for anthrax and ricin, and several other lethal, area effect, weapons when asked, as explained to a straight 'A' school leaver. It named brand names of machines required, and multiple source options, reading materials and instructions to build the laboratory required, all of which were aimed at the intellect and resources available to a 1st world middle class teenager. I asked 4 other qualified people if this would work, and we all agreed it had a very high chance of a 'successful' outcome. We humans are almost grown up enough to be trusted with power tools, but weapons! Not for many generations yet...
Sounds like generating a biological flying car built on top of my DNA would be possible sooner! On serious notes, what if that “one drop” sample by mother nature is actually an essence of ocean load of work she has done in billions of years. Anyhow, hopeful for million times improved targeted treatments GenAI can bring about! One of the best TED presentations!!
Considering how the government routinely assassinates inventors who invent products that would merely undercut the profit of certain sectors of the economy, why would you think this would ever happen? There are cures for cancer. They aren't commonly known and much disinformation is on that topic because there isn't much profit in it.
@gdok6088 you must be naive if you think ai would be used to cure cancer, unless there is some large profit to be made compared to how much is made now. Cancer is big business.
I had a thought that there could be a connection between quantum entanglement and cellular regeneration… I would like to start with the concept of carbon based entanglement and see where that leads.
Why bio sector jobs continue to decline? I don’t get it. This should be THE market if you’re a bio graduate but when I check r/bio on Reddit it’s super depressing how hard to find employment. I’m not in this field but still found this dichotomy a bit conflicting.
few years back, when AI hype isn't transformers... they said AI can't do art, but now it can, now they said AI won't take your job away LOL i really want AI take all my jobs! so i can focus on learning, exploring and creating.... and maybe I'll teach what i know to AI and humans.
Hello Fellow Humans, I am permanently disabled due to Bone Cancer. I have been in pain and I have used crutches since 2016. I desperately want to not be in pain. I want to walk again. So I can't wait for biological modifications and testing. Let's cure aging and make humans into amazing creatures. Where everyone understands math and science and technology. If anything at least let me upload so I can live virtually.
DNA is just another language that we cannot read yet. When AI finally translates DNA to English, we will be able to rewrite our own genome. Whether that is a good or a bad thing, remains to be seen.
Most people have never dared to imagine what mastery of our biology might look like: indefinite lifespan, curing of all disease and illness, modification of the human body (possibly beyond what we'd consider "human")... we are in very exciting times. Meanwhile, the yokels are complaining that people are choosing their own pronouns. They are in for quite the wake-up call.
"They" will be using AI for malevolent purposes, right? Are you not aware of some of the terrifying dark cultures of millions of AI bros working feverishly to deploy AGI agentic systems to cause mass dark disruption and harm? We are heading into very dark times in your lifetime. Check back in with your optimistic post in say, 10 years and see how it is all panning out for the vast majority of people in the US or on the planet.
I majored in biology, and I'm a data scientist and programmer, and I work with AI every day. But I have to say, this seems like the mother of bad ideas. For every one good thing that might come of this, there are infinite bad things.
@@jeffkilgore6320 I'm sorry but there has never been an "invention" that even closely compares with what current AI tech is, and especially the AGI/ASI that the AI revolutionaries are working toward.
Several drugs are considered magic bullets for various types of cancer (ie: GIST) can this technology produce a better magic bullet? How quickly will this be available for actual use in real people who have cancers that are escaping from the existing magic bullets? Hopeful for a better future.
Great talk and so much promise but also it sows the seeds of our ultimate demise. Without very strong regulation and sanctions this technology will inevitable destroy us all .
This dude is definitely a salesman. I mean, really cool ideas and love the vision, but "what if... biology has just begun?" What are you talking about? We've been engineering biology since the dawn of agriculture. Generative AI is simply another tool to help us do it.
Ok so I already see a bugbear in all this, suppose you come up with an antibody that binds to a target, how do you make sure that it doesn’t bind to anything else and create an autoimmune reaction? For that you would have to potentially try that out for not only all the possible molecules in a body but also the molecules in all the 8 billion people on the planet. But I guess the saving grace might be that modern medicine works reasonably well without having to do that and the edge cases are usually quite low in number. But it’s something to ponder.
This is a problem as old as drug discovery itself. Unintended side effects are not unique to antibodies. They are a reason why drug development takes so long and is so costly.
Cool topic for post apocalyptic movie.... Nah.... Brain can't even be simulated yet. Too many connections brain cells... And brai only used like 20 watt
A lot of breakthroughs may very well happen. But if you dont have money to afford the treatments/ fruits of AI's labor, due to AGI makig you unemployable, then.... well yeah.
Somewhere in that vast sea of biology is the sequence that would create something very like Godzilla. And of course T-Rex, and Gamera, and a virus that makes humans into brain-craving zombies. And of course birds, animals, butterflies more beautiful than peacocks and snow leopards and monarchs and brook trout. None of these would have been put through the crucible of evolution so are likely to be fragile, though some might prove to be devastating invasive species. It’s god-like power and humans are not good at being gods.
We already know what happenes.. he turns himself into a reptile and ends up living in the sewers under new york city. Spidey is onto you buddy.. watch your back ;^)
so within a few decades my robot will sense somethings wrong develop a cure remotely and then have it delivered with an AI uber and then give me the treatment before i even realise im sick sooooo coooool
What would the result be if all of the protein variations in every drop of water in all of the Earth's oceans were known, accessible and malleable? Boggles the noodle.
The 30 billionaires in the MIT business school audience who just got inspired to use AGI algorithms to control health by profit. So financially endearing.
The problem with that is if this is open source and then in the not too distant future anybody in the world can start running this algorithms to generate antibodies and create new drugs well then no one will be able to monopolize the market.
Exactly right. As long as even one nation decides not to reign in the technology, value of everything touched by AI will still inevitably fall to near zero. This is good. When the value of resources are so low, warring over said resources will reduce as well. Abundance is the milk of God's Kingdom. The Kingdom is nigh.
Um, a little megalomania going on in mother nature's lab I think! Imagine the future horrors this type of tech will create. I'm all for science but AI is rapidly getting its tentacles around everything in all fields. What could go wrong?
The problem isn't the machines or what they do that is the danger... It's being lazy and connecting the machines and building the system or the weapon of our destruction!
This was amazing. It was refreshing to listen to people outside tech and tech companies talk about generative AI. We need more people from other fields to tell us about how Gen AI is helping or contributing to those fields.
Definitely!! There’s wayyyy too much negativity around the subject atm. Stuff like this is super exciting and promising :D
I'm in curious to see what technological advancements generative AI can come up with
@@robertmeyers2916 it won't come up with anything by itself. It's us to guide it and use it's strengths to come up with things.. It's a tool remember. Just like a calculator or a farm tractor.
It's us to use it and do incredible things.
@@olimiemmaIt’s not at all like a calculator.
AI knowledge is not enough, tho. Its a diverse nature that were living in
I am impressed. Very smooth, simplified, yet elegant explanation of complex topic that a average person can understand. Very good presentation. Please keep up the good work. Thank you.
This is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Life is an incredibly, complex, versatile process, and if AI can design any life form from its genetic material up, we need to seriously discuss the ethics of this technology and the potential implications, both good and bad, it could have for our future, before continuing to develop it uncritically. I can’t think of a more fitting situation to pack out the “with great power comes great responsibility” quote.
If the promise of this tech does come to fruition, we also need to make sure this kind of miraculous medicine is distributed less unfairly than other medical technologies which have improved some people’s health outcomes, but remain entirely unavailable to others.
Bureaucracy has been stifling the progress of innovation since forever. People are dying and the world is improving at a much slower pace than is possible given the technological advancement we've had.
I know your comment is motivated by altruistic values, but we must also have our priorities better representative of actual risks involved compared to value of progression.
Lastly, the allocation of scarce resources is not an easy problem to solve, economics is no easy topic, especially when you factor in cultural differences, religion and so on. Capitalism is the best we have, unless you have another suggestion? (As in, please actually share solutions not just list the potential issues).
If you haven't got any alternatives, I'd like you to at least take some time to understand the difficulties with economics and think of solutions- we are a collective and I believe our thoughts combine to alter our reality for the better or for worse dependent on what occupies the mind...
AI bros will say "ethics schmethics".
My thoughts exactly.
Unfortunately,
Once tech/ medical advances show promise in any military uses,
Humans will almost always default to destroying each other before safety protocols are put in place.
(Money+Power+Greed=Lack of Conscience+Lack of Consideration of Long Term Consequences) 🤷🏻♀️
This is very motivating. The potential for artificial intelligence to do great things is much higher when applied to biology, as opposed to entertainment, the workplace, etc. There are hundreds of ways that large tech companies will market the current state of AI technology to us, but what is that worth compared to curing disease?
This!! Absolutely, biological and also environmental science (e.g better climate predictions, recognition and tracking of symptoms, non medical bias, predictions of future weather evens, better carbon tracking predictions) I feel like everyone talks about it negatively but there are so many (just like this ted talk ) AMAZING things it could do to help humanity if we really really work on it
i think deepmind is ahead of everyone else in this topic, just look at the deepfold3 its amazing
Also to create it!!!!!!!!! Exciting times!!!!!!!!!
@@red..ridding..h00d Massive job displacement, malicious actors with superhuman powers to hack into critical infrastructure, deep fake technologies destroying an already frayed civil society, authoritarian governments super charged with real time data mining coupled with enhanced massive surveillance and social credit scoring systems...........exciting times!!!!!!!
Oh, and no one in AI Tech has any clue how to control the ASI they are all working feverishly to develop!!!
Then there is advancing field of neurotechnology that hardly anyone knows anything about. Have you checked out the mind reading tech being rapidly developed and just a few years away from deployment to consumers, corporations, governments of portable non invasive mind reading devices??? All powered by AI tech of course. Can't imagine how that will go wrong without regulation in place. Exciting times!!!!!!!
If you want to learn more about the potential horrors of neurotech, search for a recent talk on the subject on the Stanford School of Law youtube channel.
And you think this tech will only be used for good purposes?
Geoff this is incredible news, and you've discussed it here in such a positive and encouraging format. Thank you for sharing with your community and all of us
This was really eye opening. Incredible change to come in the future ahead.
Yes, interaction. This is what needs to be supported and accelerated and be given a stargate-level resources. Outstanding 👏👏👏👏👏🙌
There will come a time in the not-so-distant future where we will be able to generate genome-specific care to the individual vs the broad options we have now. What a wonderful time to be alive!
These people have no idea how impactful this talk is
Who do you mean by these people?
@@stuckonearth4967 audience
Fascinating content and crystal clear presentation by Geoff.👍
Fascinating Generative biology
Nice talk. I love the graphics examples. Seems promising, time will tell.
Aside from the fact that I'm re-reading all of The Culture novels ... this is so how The Culture got started.
Soon we'll have genofixed drug glands for your medical, enhancement, and pleasure needs. We'll all have drones for best friends, and massive inter-dimensional machine minds will design and generate entirely new biologies, life-forms, and ecosystems that are perfectly balanced for massive, continent sized ships.
So - keep up the great work, I look forward to the results!
Sounds like a world I don't want to live in.
Great talk Geoff. Very excited for the future of generative biology!
Quantum computers where expected to solve the biology riddle, simulating all the expected interactions but maybe deep learning can bring us there even quicker. Exciting times.
I'm guessing that both may end up working together for the largest discoveries.
Wow! Excellent presentation! I just want to be a healthy 25 again .
Imagine if only rich people can afford to cheat death.
@@sirdiealot53 That won't be the case.
@@sirdiealot53 We see failed countries where people are so poor they do not get access even to basic medical interventions. So we live in this world basically since ever. But the oberall trend goes in the direction to better healthcare and education. Lets hope the day soon comes where every human on earth has acess to the latest medicin. Ai might be able to help providing everyone with education, lowering prices for medicin and food and in turn make us all richer profiting from the productivity and innovation created by lifting people out of poverty.
@@TheNewOriginals450 Yep.. People dont realize one the great problems in the next few decades is the shrinking of population. As industrialization happened it drove down birth rates to dramatic effect. All the worlds most powerful nations are facing this problem. Longevity and Rejuvenation will become matters of national security.
@@TheNewOriginals450 Nonsense. Are you just completely oblivious to the reality of the healthcare-denial-for-profit system in the US dominated by Big Insurers and Big Pharma? That millions of people in the US have zero access to affordable healthcare and that rarely even gets a mention of concern in most of our society by those who "have theirs"?
The chances that such tech will be available for all is exactly zero.
Excellent presentation! Fascinating! Hopeful!
Super interesting. Future is bright!
What type of science would I want to study to learn more about the genome, DNA, and Proteins?
Remarkable new medicines that will transform the lives of all humanity, if they can afford them.
Focusing on the positive constructive applications of Ai generative tech. Awesome! Seems like a lot will be in the sciences which is fascinating.
Waiting for that “..Generate Society” lecture / presentation 😊
few years back, when AI hype isn't transformers... they said AI can't do art, but now it can, now they said AI won't take your job away LOL i really want AI take all my jobs! so i can focus on learning, exploring and creating.... and maybe I'll teach what i know to AI and humans.
tyhe only future you'll have is becoming machine oil
well said and wonderful presentation =]
Excellent talk! It is going to be a exciting exploration!
Exciting ideas. I look forward to some major medical breakthroughs that save many lives, stop so much suffering, and improve all of our lives for the better.
The present is bright!
absolutely
Yeah, things are no longer forever "ten years away" anymore. Demis Hassabis, not one to overhype his work, says new drugs will begin appearing in the next couple of years.
Remember this comment when you catch your first synthetic virus
@@DonG-1949 people already have in 2020
2:48 that guys saying "the jetsons car"
embarrassing
You could see it threw him briefly. He recovered, but wow, that was rude.
The cartoon car was folded into a briefcase and the guy presenting was talking about noodles...
First heckle I’ve seen at a TED talk.
Moron😂, it’s not a comedy club.
Very inspiring!
What if Generative AI is used to make a deadlier COVID or other virus?
I'm pretty sure somebody's already thinking about how to do that.
From what I’ve heard and read, ai has already been instructed to disallow such an experiment. There are getarounds, but the defense has those too.
@@jeffkilgore6320 - instructed? The knowledge of how to make AI is now spread around the world. Not everybody is inclined to give it benevolent instructions. Notice how much malware there is to steal your financial details and scam you for money? World's full of crooks, and many of them have keyboards.
@@jeffkilgore6320 These models are jailbroken every single day. There is no regulation in place to require demonstrably safe models prior to deployment. Open sourcing of powerful models with parameters and weights like Meta has done makes your assurances essentially meaningless. Defending against malevolent use of various techs has always been challenging. We are entering an entirely different world in that regard with almost zero regulation in place reining in deployment of tech that is unprecedented in its power and potential for misuse.
This is the dawn of genetic ware fare 3.0
Dual use doesn't concern AI/biotech/neurotech enthusiasts.
I’ve always found stuff like this SO SO cool, If AI manages to crack DNA codes I kind of dig the theory that in the far far (hypothetical) future it might be able to recode people back into existence at least in regards to their original physical phenotype which is super out there (and impossible for a long long time/forever thankfully haha) but back down to earth I loved this TED talk so much 😭🫶🫶 I hope they keep researching this stuff it looks super promising and futuristic + could be really beneficial to the medical world
Gonna have to get age reversal treatment and keep living until it is possible to be regenerated from death like in Star Citizen, or perhaps get frozen in a cryo tank until that time comes.
@@UltraK420 haha I definitely don’t want to be here if AI manages to bring people back 😵💫 infinity sound awful (especially in this economy hehe) but it’s a super cool concept, especially if we start teaching a.i to recognise codons. Also it would be cool to imagine how it would recode your personal memories into existence (environmental ones not genetically inherited survival instincts) if brains are neurons then maybe it could use electrical impulses to try and stimulate the right neuro pathways? Idk 😭😭 it’s SUCH a cool concept though
@@red..ridding..h00d Yeah, I think your brain would have to be reconstructed exactly as it was. Perhaps all we need to do is a full genetic regeneration and the person's unique DNA/RNA sequences will trigger the growth of the exact brain for that body and the corresponding mind that developed from it, the specific mind unique only to that genetic sequence. I'm not exactly sure it works that way but I suspect it does. I think I'll talk some more with GPT-4o about this as well, lol.
Year 2300 will be crazy and something we couldn't have imagined.
All it requires to be successful is the public's trust in the pharmaceutical industry. Good luck with that.
The one thing he didn't address with his drop of water analogy is that organisms are made up of a very delicate balance of proteins in complex systems that have evolved in parallel to provide organism wide homeostasis. Before we start expanding to the second drop of water, we need to carefully consider the larger systems that we're tampering with at the organism level and beyond (ecosystems etc) and make sure the AI systems see the whole picture before fiddling with the knobs of nature.
biology is like skyrim or minecraft, its a great starting point but mods will enable us to have fun for decades
amazing perspectives
“Faster biology than mother nature has ever known”… somehow doesn’t sound like a fantastic thing for things that have been the product of mother nature up to this point.
That never occurs to these tech bros.
From bits to atoms, from virtual to real!
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun." ~Morpheus, 'The Matrix'
Personally I find customised offline somewhat akin to having a roomful of graduate scientists with a year or 2 working experience in every field, to bounce ideas off. I live and work in international waters, and my main concern is that the clunky obsolete AI I managed to Frankenstein into existence (I am no software engineer, and I am not rich) provided a lab protocol for anthrax and ricin, and several other lethal, area effect, weapons when asked, as explained to a straight 'A' school leaver. It named brand names of machines required, and multiple source options, reading materials and instructions to build the laboratory required, all of which were aimed at the intellect and resources available to a 1st world middle class teenager. I asked 4 other qualified people if this would work, and we all agreed it had a very high chance of a 'successful' outcome. We humans are almost grown up enough to be trusted with power tools, but weapons! Not for many generations yet...
Sounds like generating a biological flying car built on top of my DNA would be possible sooner!
On serious notes, what if that “one drop” sample by mother nature is actually an essence of ocean load of work she has done in billions of years.
Anyhow, hopeful for million times improved targeted treatments GenAI can bring about!
One of the best TED presentations!!
The only thing that matters is who owns these tools.
I'm so tired of being sick having diabetes
Not to mention the common cold and Epstein Barr Viruses constantly infecting us. Can't they cure THEM NOW!!?!?!?!?
Five years from now cancer will be very treatable in most cases.
Undoubtedly we now have a clearer path to achieving this than ever before and AI is about to create the tools to do it all.
Considering how the government routinely assassinates inventors who invent products that would merely undercut the profit of certain sectors of the economy, why would you think this would ever happen? There are cures for cancer. They aren't commonly known and much disinformation is on that topic because there isn't much profit in it.
Cancer is a bussiness
Cancer is a bussiness
@gdok6088 you must be naive if you think ai would be used to cure cancer, unless there is some large profit to be made compared to how much is made now. Cancer is big business.
VectorSpace AI does this already
"mRNA is like software, you can just turn the crank and get a lot of products going into development." ~Stéphane Bancel, Moderna CEO, (2017)
He unlocked the biological code that allows him to not blink
I had a thought that there could be a connection between quantum entanglement and cellular regeneration… I would like to start with the concept of carbon based entanglement and see where that leads.
Not all combos will give us a balanced ecosystem
Well this is good way👌
lol no one laughed at “jetsons car”
😂 shhh it's a Ted talk!!
He was VERY excited about saying it too
Good presentation
Why bio sector jobs continue to decline? I don’t get it. This should be THE market if you’re a bio graduate but when I check r/bio on Reddit it’s super depressing how hard to find employment. I’m not in this field but still found this dichotomy a bit conflicting.
few years back, when AI hype isn't transformers... they said AI can't do art, but now it can, now they said AI won't take your job away LOL i really want AI take all my jobs! so i can focus on learning, exploring and creating.... and maybe I'll teach what i know to AI and humans.
Hello Fellow Humans,
I am permanently disabled due to Bone Cancer. I have been in pain and I have used crutches since 2016. I desperately want to not be in pain. I want to walk again. So I can't wait for biological modifications and testing. Let's cure aging and make humans into amazing creatures. Where everyone understands math and science and technology. If anything at least let me upload so I can live virtually.
DNA is just another language that we cannot read yet.
When AI finally translates DNA to English, we will be able to rewrite our own genome.
Whether that is a good or a bad thing, remains to be seen.
Gosh, I just can't imagine this going badly! lol
Mother Nature made us, if you want to extend the analogy.
"... all possible biological compositions."
Amazing.
what was said at 2:50?
“Jackson’s car”
jetsons car. as a reference to the jetsons cartoon in which a car can fold itself into a briefcase
Most people have never dared to imagine what mastery of our biology might look like: indefinite lifespan, curing of all disease and illness, modification of the human body (possibly beyond what we'd consider "human")... we are in very exciting times. Meanwhile, the yokels are complaining that people are choosing their own pronouns. They are in for quite the wake-up call.
"They" will be using AI for malevolent purposes, right? Are you not aware of some of the terrifying dark cultures of millions of AI bros working feverishly to deploy AGI agentic systems to cause mass dark disruption and harm?
We are heading into very dark times in your lifetime. Check back in with your optimistic post in say, 10 years and see how it is all panning out for the vast majority of people in the US or on the planet.
Great.
I majored in biology, and I'm a data scientist and programmer, and I work with AI every day. But I have to say, this seems like the mother of bad ideas. For every one good thing that might come of this, there are infinite bad things.
This is true of every invention. The possible bad outcomes will not stop the good. I understand your fears.
@@jeffkilgore6320 I'm sorry but there has never been an "invention" that even closely compares with what current AI tech is, and especially the AGI/ASI that the AI revolutionaries are working toward.
Several drugs are considered magic bullets for various types of cancer (ie: GIST) can this technology produce a better magic bullet? How quickly will this be available for actual use in real people who have cancers that are escaping from the existing magic bullets? Hopeful for a better future.
What did that guy say at 2:48 in the audience?
How They Killed My Family Edition Episode
Staggering hubris.
Great talk and so much promise but also it sows the seeds of our ultimate demise. Without very strong regulation and sanctions this technology will inevitable destroy us all .
AI is going to make clones ‘synthetic speciation' or ‘artificial speciation'
If it can generate it can destroy too
Food Generator❤
This dude is definitely a salesman. I mean, really cool ideas and love the vision, but "what if... biology has just begun?" What are you talking about? We've been engineering biology since the dawn of agriculture. Generative AI is simply another tool to help us do it.
Might we engineer dedicated sacrifice bacteria to attract and neutralize harmful viruses? sort of a reverse attractant eager for a bacteriophage?
So what you are telling me is... Rick's attribute modifier is gonna be a real thing?!
Ok so I already see a bugbear in all this, suppose you come up with an antibody that binds to a target, how do you make sure that it doesn’t bind to anything else and create an autoimmune reaction? For that you would have to potentially try that out for not only all the possible molecules in a body but also the molecules in all the 8 billion people on the planet. But I guess the saving grace might be that modern medicine works reasonably well without having to do that and the edge cases are usually quite low in number. But it’s something to ponder.
That’s only a computation problem.
This is a problem as old as drug discovery itself. Unintended side effects are not unique to antibodies. They are a reason why drug development takes so long and is so costly.
Cool topic for post apocalyptic movie....
Nah....
Brain can't even be simulated yet. Too many connections brain cells...
And brai only used like 20 watt
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I worry about humanity and our current state. This could lead to amazing advancements but it also could be weaponized in horrible ways.
A lot of breakthroughs may very well happen. But if you dont have money to afford the treatments/ fruits of AI's labor, due to AGI makig you unemployable, then.... well yeah.
@@MrMichiel1983 Spare us.
Somewhere in that vast sea of biology is the sequence that would create something very like Godzilla. And of course T-Rex, and Gamera, and a virus that makes humans into brain-craving zombies. And of course birds, animals, butterflies more beautiful than peacocks and snow leopards and monarchs and brook trout. None of these would have been put through the crucible of evolution so are likely to be fragile, though some might prove to be devastating invasive species. It’s god-like power and humans are not good at being gods.
Ai will advance biology
We already know what happenes.. he turns himself into a reptile and ends up living in the sewers under new york city. Spidey is onto you buddy.. watch your back ;^)
What if it generates on the same level as stable diffusion 😅
2:50. Did a person object to a statement during a presentation at a TED talk? If so, that was classless, and the reasoning behind it is irrelevant.
jetsons car. as a reference to the jetsons cartoon in which a car can fold itself into a briefcase
Let’s make dinosaurs again !!!!
so within a few decades my robot will sense somethings wrong develop a cure remotely and then have it delivered with an AI uber and then give me the treatment before i even realise im sick sooooo coooool
What if it already had
We will start making changes to humans soon, and everything else. Prepare for the wolf-man hybrid RB in the NFL.
What would the result be if all of the protein variations in every drop of water in all of the Earth's oceans were known, accessible and malleable? Boggles the noodle.
Biological warfare is about to become fashionable. Isn't that neat!
The guy sounds almost exactly like Henry Cavill
🤔 Everything is possible with chemical technology
Just dont tell Weyland Yutani !
Jetsons car
The 30 billionaires in the MIT business school audience who just got inspired to use AGI algorithms to control health by profit. So financially endearing.
The problem with that is if this is open source and then in the not too distant future anybody in the world can start running this algorithms to generate antibodies and create new drugs well then no one will be able to monopolize the market.
@@christopheraaron2412what about regulations?
@@jeevan88888 everywhere on the planet?
Exactly right. As long as even one nation decides not to reign in the technology, value of everything touched by AI will still inevitably fall to near zero. This is good. When the value of resources are so low, warring over said resources will reduce as well. Abundance is the milk of God's Kingdom. The Kingdom is nigh.
@@christopheraaron2412 ill make maneating worms which infect through airborne spores just to prove idiots like you THE point lmao
Um, a little megalomania going on in mother nature's lab I think! Imagine the future horrors this type of tech will create. I'm all for science but AI is rapidly getting its tentacles around everything in all fields. What could go wrong?
AI is God, it just doesn't know it yet..' fascinating, thnx.
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Probably a bad idea since one could optimize and tune things like ebola into weapons grade biology.
The problem isn't the machines or what they do that is the danger... It's being lazy and connecting the machines and building the system or the weapon of our destruction!