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They don't want the crazy academic coming in and vetoing their ideas.

I mean there's places for that where people like Steve Jobs needs to hold on to the image of what he wants the company to be.

As opposed to I would probably be fired from a company within a week because I just don't like people telling me what to do.

That's just a fact.

It already is.

It is.

It already is.

I mean, look at who just won the Nobel Prize last year, David Baker at Google, with the ability to predict protein structure, et cetera, and protein structure.

Once you know the protein structure, now you can predict molecules that might come into it.

So go back to the stuff that I'm trying to do with looking at the complexities of the dance of how the immune system talks or doesn't to cancer.

Right.

If we can find a particular place that might be an Achilles heel along the way towards the shutting down that is different, for instance, than what the current drugs are, well, maybe we should aim at that.

There's so many more opportunities that are suddenly opening up in front of us because the AI and the data is letting us look at a network of

of how the system is working.

I mean, before it used to be you'd look at a computer chip and you'd see just a computer chip with a few wires.

But imagine now that you, as a scientist, have a microscope that's looking at the complexities of the wiring diagram that's connecting this resistor to that capacitor to that diode to this transistor.

That's where we are now.

And so now suddenly we can say, well, I don't want to do that because it'll kill the chip.

But the chip is malfunctioning, so let me put here, put a little bit of pressure there, and now I can reactivate the immune system or the chip to work in the right way.

Yeah, because maybe it's not one place I need to press, but two or three at the same time.