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Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
This take from my @warpsciences co-founder Sol Reisberg is important—and a great read from an expert in the space.
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸
8 storiesKevin Weil is a former OpenAI executive who led its AI-for-science efforts. Recent coverage centers on his new startup, launched with $215 million to use AI to speed up a key step of drug development, along with his X posts on AI in mathematics, high energy physics and scientific research.
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Ex-OpenAI science head Kevin Weil launches startup with $215 million
Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led its AI-for-science efforts, has launched a startup with $215 million aimed at using AI to speed up a key step of drug development.
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
I think about this image all the time.
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
"The invention of the boat reduced the importance of swimming, but enabled the discovery of new lands." Beautiful analogy from @ylecun about the opportunities and changes with AI, in mathematics and in science more broadly.
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
AI x mathematics ftw. What an incredible release today from OpenAI 🤯 There's a lot of work to do to get models of the same caliber in the physical sciences, but just think of the possibilities as we get there. And we will get there. [Quoting @willdepue]: i a…
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
Nine loop calculations in N=4 Super Yang-Mills! Lance Dixon's 8-loop calculation was mind boggling when he did it. I calculated a lot of Feynman diagrams in grad school and this is 🤯 Will be amazing to see where AI will take high energy physics in the coming…
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
This is exactly the right take. [Quoting @saranormous]: just got off the phone with a new engineer hire at a portco with a very wise insight “AI has been replacing my job since I got a CS degree, yet I’m busier than ever - we can all just be more ambitious” t…
Kevin Weil 🇺🇸@kevinweil
Gradually, then all at once. [Quoting @OpenAI]: We’re working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to help OpenAI responsibly share advances in AI and mathematics. The group will advise on how we assess and communicate new mathematical results…
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