It's practically the theme of our show that AI is going to change almost everything about the way drugs get developed and the way healthcare gets delivered. But there’s probably nobody better placed to see how this transformation is already happening than Harry's guest this week, Scott Penberthy. 

Scott works at Google Cloud, where he’s the director of Applied AI in the Office of the CTO. He and his team work with Google’s big corporate customers, including a variety of customers in healthcare and pharmaceutical R&D, to help them solve business problems that require large-scale computing and deep learning. 

Scott compares Google’s cloud computing capabilities to a racecar that can be adapted to any type of race—whether that’s a customer like Ginkgo Bioworks that leans on computation to reprogram bacterial cells to pump out pharmaceuticals and other products, or a giant health network like Anthem that uses AI to deliver personalized services to members. Because Scott helps set up these partnerships, and because he gets the first look at the Google’s emerging products and services, he has a unique picture of how computing is changing the everyday practice of doing R&D and running a healthcare company. As he himself puts it, he’s in the catbird seat. So listen along as Scott and Harry geek out about how far things have come in AI's transformation of healthcare, and how much more is just around the corner. 

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