72 David Baker and the lab's communal brain

David Baker , who was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing novel proteins with AI, is a professor at the University of Washington. In this episode, he explains how he socially engineers his lab’s " communal brain ", where all individuals function like neurons, densely interconnected to maximize idea generation. We explore the role of AI in science , discussing whether AI can be truly creative. Finally, we discuss the current funding crisis in science, which disproportionately affects young researchers. For more information about Night Science, visit .

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72 David Baker and the lab's communal brain is an episode from Night Science by Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher.

This episode is 24:53 long.

This episode was published on Mar 24, 2025.

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