Asked whether AI will lessen the need for researchers, Google’s head of Research Yossi Matias gave a clear answer. “The only scenario where you would need fewer researchers is if we assume we’ve answered almost all the major questions. I don’t think anyone believes that,” he said at Google’s flagship research conference in Mountain View.…
Why healthcare is emerging as AI’s most impactful frontier
In July, the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva highlighted current uses of artificial intelligence (AI) across sectors including agriculture, education, and health. In medicine, several sessions and demos focused on applications that are already being piloted or deployed in defined settings. While much of the technology on display remains in development, healthcare featured…
25 techbio leaders that shaped the AI-biology convergence in 2024
While the term “biotechnology” was coined in 1919, “techbio” dates back roughly a century after that. Around 2019, the VC firm Artis Ventures set up a venture capital fund named Artis techbio with the aim of uniting software, computational biology, and drug development into a cohesive framework. The ambition behind this idea has sometimes surpassed…