[podcast] Bradley Love on AI and Science

Every Inc Podcast: The AI-powered Era of Scientific Discovery Is Here - Ep. 25 with Dr. Bradley Love

We need to replace the idea that science is simple physics-like explanations; instead, maybe the world is more of a complex interaction that can only be understood by computers.

Bradley Love @profdata

Change science problems into engineering problems.

Physics is a very special case…most of science is about too many variables. Maybe there just isn’t a tidy causal explanation.

Maybe scientists will be like priests, people you go to to explain things.

Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Teaser 00:01:00 - Introduction 00:01:58 - The motivations behind building a LLM that can predict the future 00:11:14 - How studying the brain can solve the AI revolution’s energy problem 00:13:32 - Dr. Love and his team have developed a new way to prompt AI 00:18:27 - Dan’s take on how AI is changing science 00:22:54 - Why clean scientific explanations are a thing of the past 00:29:49 - How our understanding of explanations will evolve 00:37:31 - Why Dr. Love thinks the way we do scientific research is flawed 00:40:42 - Why humans are drawn to simple explanations 00:45:03 - How Dr. Love would rebuild the field of science