데브허브 | DEVHUB | How AI Will Change Science Forever - Ep. 43 with Alice Albrecht
AI is going to change science forever.
Small scale studies will give way to large scale open data gathering efforts. We’ll shift from seeking broad general theories to making contextual predictions in individual cases. The traditional research paper will change fundamentally.
That’s why I had Alice Albrecht on the show. Few people straddle the worlds of science and AI like she does: She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from Yale and is a machine learning researcher with almost a decade of experience. Her startup re:collect built an app to augment human intelligence with AI and was acqui-hired by SmartNews earlier this year. She now heads up AI product there.
We get into the contours of this new paradigm in science:
Whether research papers are still the best format to “release” science in
The increasing importance of data in scientific discovery
Why AI is making N-of-1 studies imperative—when they’re normally seen as unscientific
The case for big tech to open-source their data for scientific research
The power of unbundling data and interpretations, in science and media
This is a must-watch for anyone interested in how AI is changing the future of scientific research.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Episode start
00:00:59 - Introduction
00:04:50 - Everything Alice learned about growing an AI startup
00:09:08 - Alice's thesis about how AI can augment human intelligence
00:12:47 - Whether chat is the best way for humans to interface with AI
00:23:55 - Ideas to build an AI model that predicts OCD symptoms
00:37:12 - Why Alice thinks LLMs aren't the right models to do predictive work
00:38:39 - How AI is broadening the horizons of science
00:40:14 - The new format in which science will be released
00:45:39 - Why AI makes N-of-1 studies more relevant
00:50:42 - The power of separating data from interpretations
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
Alice Albrecht: @AliceAlbrecht
The company that recently acquired Alice’s startup: SmartNews
The piece Alice wrote for Every about how AI can augment human intelligence: The Case for Cyborgs
Every’s product incubations that we discuss in the context of how AI is changing media: Extendable Articles, TLDR
