Moneyball Medicine

There have been a lot of stories in the news over the last few months about AI chatbots like ChatGPT that can respond to your questions with convincing and well-written answers. These so-called large language models can tell you how to build a treehouse, how to bake a cake, or how to sleep better. But notice that word large. Behind the scenes, these models have learned which word tend to cluster together by sifting through hundreds of billions of pieces of data—basically the entire Internet, in the cast of ChatGPT, including all of Wikipedia and thousands of published books. Now imagine that another chatbot came along that could learn how to generate convincing text response by studying only, say, 18 sentences. Something like that is what this week’s guest Raphael Townshend, the founder and CEO of Atomic AI, has accomplished when it comes to predicting the structure of RNA molecules.RNA has been in the news a lot lately too. That's in part because some of the vaccines that helped us beat back the coronavirus