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11:00 The pharmaceutical companies are unavoidably wasteful in their R&D because there are countless variables and you're also dealing with human beings. How can AI be used to help reduce that waste in the drug discovery process?49:30 Can centralized governments have an active role in innovating technologies and ideas in the future? Can innovation ever benefit from that top-down approach?56:02 How does attitude towards blockchain and cryptocurrency vary by country in Asia?Podcast notes:
00:05 Welcome Pk Rasam to Asia Tech Podcast Stories00:57 In the world of blockchain, PK Rasam likes collecting and breeding digital cats.03:00 What is a digital kitten anyway?11:00 The pharmaceutical companies are unavoidably wasteful in their R&D because there are countless variables and you're also dealing with human beings. How can AI be used to help reduce that waste in the drug discovery process?15:00 Where else could you take that idea of decentralizing information and apply it to different verticals?15:12 Where are people receptive to that?18:35 What is the benefit of putting information onto the blockchain? What is the problem it's solving?24:47 People don’t realize how the bacteria in your body are connected to your whole body. That's the beauty of the human "biome"...28:42 PK climbed 5 mountains, encircled 858 km, in 5 days. What’s the story? Does he see himself as somebody who likes to go out on these crazy adventures?32:20 How does PK go back to the analogue stage, where we are not connected to the digital world. How do you do that?37:35 Do we have to first start asking ourselves, why are we intelligent in the first place, to really get to the issue of artificial intelligence?49:30 Can centralized governments have an active role in innovating technologies and ideas in the future? Can innovation ever benefit from that top-down approach?56:02 How does attitude towards blockchain and cryptocurrency vary by country in Asia?58:28 What gets PK excited at the moment?60:15 Where can people find out more about PK?
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