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Cognitive Revolution · November 23, 2024 · 78m
Combining Biology and AI with Michael Levin
Professor Michael Levin discusses how AI is transforming biological research — from predicting disease links using multi-modal datasets to understanding how organisms process information at the cellular level.
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Levin credits his own breakthroughs to working at the intersection of computer science, developmental biology, and cognitive science. The most important scientific advances come from people who refuse to stay in one field.
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Biology is an information science — cells compute, and AI helps us understand their algorithms
Levin argues that biology should be understood as information processing at every level — from genes to cells to organs to organisms. AI tools are uniquely suited to decode these biological computations.