Lex Fridman 153 Dmitry Korkin Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast interview with Dmityr Korkin, on Proteins Evolution AI Dmitry Korkin is a professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at WPI
EPISODE LINKS:
- Dmitry’s Website: http://korkinlab.org/
- Dmitry’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dmkorkin
OUTLINE:
- 0:00 - Introduction
- 1:57 - Proteins and the building blocks of life
- 9:00 - Spike protein
- 15:48 - Coronavirus biological structure explained
- 20:45 - Virus mutations
- 27:16 - Evolution of proteins
- 37:02 - Self-replicating computer programs
- 44:38 - Origin of life
- 52:11 - Extraterrestrial life in our solar system
- 54:08 - Joshua Lederberg
- 1h00:07 - Dendral
- 1h03:01 - Why did expert systems fail?
- 1h05:12 - AlphaFold 2
- 1h26:50 - Will AI revolutionize art and music?
- 1h33:49 - Multi-protein folding
- 1h38:16 - Will AlphaFold 2 result in a Nobel Prize?
- 1h40:47 - Will AI be used to engineer deadly viruses?
- 1h55:54 - Book recommendations
- 2h05:37 - Family
- 2h08:15 - A poem in Russian
notes
- Proteins have modular components
- protein domain