This week Dr Jason Moore tells us about the exciting strides forward that AI is taking; might everyone one day have their own machine learning 'toolbox' at home? Jason is the creator of PennAI, an accessible, user-friendly artificial intelligence system and he explains how machine learning will change the future of medicine and many other fields of science.

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Jason Links

• BMI Podcast http://bmipodcast.org
• Epistasis Lab http://epistasis.org/ 
• PennAI http://pennai.org/   

Episode synopsis:

00:00 - Intro
01:28 - Machine learning in biology
08:04 - The history of computation in medicine
13:33 - AI's role in diagnostics
20:13 - Issues of bringing AI into medicine
27:04 - Understanding AI algorithms
28:45 - The PennAI system
44:38 - Exciting areas of AI in biology
48:40 - Advice
51:54 - Extro