Dr. Oliver Vance

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Global News Podcast · Partial restoration of phone services in Iran · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

What role do you think artists like yourself have when it comes to these hugely traumatic political situations with protesters on the streets?

We're hoping we can develop medicines much faster and much more effectively than humans can ever do by using computers.

What we're hoping to do is build AI systems that can understand disease biology sufficiently to design medicines straight into clinic.

So ultimately to have a system where you can tell it the disease, you can tell it what's wrong, and it will design you a medicine and ideally a cure for that treatment.

So the starting premise of Basecamp was that we don't know anywhere near enough about the vast majority of life on Earth.

So far more than 99% of life on Earth is completely unknown.

70% of everything we know is from five species.

And so Basecamp set out to change this.

We built partnerships in 28 countries, 150 different locations.

It is the rainforest, the Arctic, volcanoes under the ocean to basically look for the rest of the species.

So far, we've discovered over a million new species.

previously unknown to science, and use them to train huge AI models that are starting to understand evolution, understand life, and to use that to design medicine.

So in other fields of AI, they train on the entire internet.

If you want to write a poem with a new AI model, you train on the entire internet and then ask it to write a poem.

You don't train on 100,000 poems.

And so the analogy is same here.

So if we trade on the Internet of Life, you know, the Wikipedia of life on Earth, effectively, if we can understand that we can access that, then these models, they have amazing the ability to learn and to generate new ideas from having learned enough of that information.

You can't be sure until the results come out the other end.

That's exactly, exactly the point.

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