James Zou

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"The Cognitive Revolution" · Breakthroughs in AI for Biology: AI Lab Groups & Protein Model Interpretability with Prof James Zou · 18 Dec 2024 podcast

One nice thing about these virtual agents is that their meetings are much faster than our meetings, right?

So in the time that we sit around and introduce each other and have coffee, they've already had hundreds of meetings.

These sporting language models, they I think they have learned new concepts.

They have filled in some of the gaps in our knowledge.

And now it's our job to see can we extract those out using techniques like SAEs.

I do think that there is already a gold mine of new concepts and knowledge that are already hidden in the existing models that even if we can extract those out, I think that would already teach us a huge amount of interesting new insights.

Yeah, so so I'm very excited about the virtual lab.

So the setup there is that it's a very versatile platform, right?

So we have like an AI professor, sort of like an AI PI, sort of professor agent.

And that professor agent then manages and works with a bunch of different that you can give them as sort of student agents.

Each of the sub-agents would have their own expertise.

You could have one agent being like a immunologist expert, right?

Or a computer science expert or a computational biology expert.

And then the professor and this team of these um virtual agents, then they work together to really try to tackle these quite challenging open ended research projects.

And we did a case study of actually having this team virtual lab try to uh design new nanobodies for the recent variants of SARS CoV too.

Yeah, yeah.

So I think the highline result is that though this virtual lab of agents that have these diverse interdisciplinary expertise

They worked together and they actually did something very cool with relatively minimal human feedback from us.

They first developed like a new computational framework, a workflow for designing new nanobodies, right?

So this

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