™The Bitter Lesson of Biology: Why Scaling AI Isn't Enough — Pushmeet Kohli (DeepMind) & Sal Candido (Biohub)
A 32:41 podcast panel: Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido discuss AI for biology after AlphaFold — scaling laws, data quality, the virtual cell, and drug discovery.
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Opening: AlphaFold has not fully solved protein folding
Finding the right scaling laws and data for biology matters more than blindly scaling up
AlphaFold's data limits; building a virtual cell needs fundamentally different datasets
AlphaFold's limits: structure, function, dynamics; protein dynamics and disorder remain unsolved
Moving from models of individual proteins to whole biological systems
Protein language models may hold scientific knowledge not yet unlocked
When AI could bring 10x–100x acceleration to drug discovery and reach the clinic
Curing all disease needs 10x breakthroughs, not 10% incremental gains
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