Google Research Head Yossi Mathias: AI For Cancer Research, Quantum's Progress, Researchers' Future

The head of Google Research joins us to talk about AI for cancer research, quantum, and whether product and research are getting too close together. That conversation, in front of a live audience of researchers and media at Google's Mountain View headquarters, is coming up right after this. This episode is brought to you by Genesis. What does it actually take to put Agentic AI to work across an entire enterprise? I recently spoke with Genesis chairman and CEO Tony Bates about why orchestration is emerging as a competitive advantage in customer experience and what companies need to get right in the AI era.

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Well, thanks for being here, Alex. So, there's been a lot of noise in the AI world recently. A lot of noise. But recently Google has come up with a hypothesis about cancer cell behavior with an LLM that was then proven out in a living cell. So can you talk a little bit about the significance of this and how it came about?

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