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Briefings and ideas about Rich Sutton from AI podcast discussions and the research they cite, with links to the original sources.
Biohub's Sal Candido and Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli argued on a panel that scaling laws in biology must be found, not assumed, and that the problem should decide whether to build better models or gather new data.
Richard Socher, author of The Eureka Machine, argues AI can reconnect fragmented science and that biology gains most. He expects some single-gene diseases cured within 12 months, but says FDA delays mean five to 10 years for cures at scale.
Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed's Oak Lab wants deployed AI to update its weights from individual experience, using per-weight learning rates and continual backpropagation—backed by earlier experiments, not yet a demonstrated general-purpose system.