🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science

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How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms?

John Platt has an Oscar, two textbook algorithms, two named asteroids, and an Erdos-Bacon number of 6. This was easily the most fun bio of all the guests we’ve read to date. And the result was an epic and fun chat covering Google’s Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), how AI can help battle climate change, and tons of great stories about the co-evolution of science and AI.John’s colleague Dave Bacon likes to tease John that his career has been defined by being twenty years early to the next big thing. This may be convolutional neural networks (some credit him with coining the term), fusion research, quantum computing. John and Google have been working on solving some of humanity’s hardest problems with AI and computation for well over a decade now. Recently John and his team set their sights on using AI to solve any scientific problem that can be written down as a score.Google’s Empirical Research Assistance (ERA)John’s team has taken on many hard scientific problems over the years.

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