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Podcast: Asking Dr. James Zou about AI agents

Where do humans fit in with the AI agent applications from his lab? These AI agents include VirtualLab, CellVoyager and Paper2Agent

James Zou, a computer scientist at Stanford University, works at the interface between AI, computer science and biomedicine.

I did a podcast with him and he is in a story I did for Nature Methods called Call your AI agent

Here is my podcast with Dr. Zou, you can find a transcript in the show notes. A little story based on some things he shared in the podcast is on this page, too. 

Among other things I asked him if there might be a James Zou AI agent one of these days. He could then mentor 500 students or rather the AI agent could do that. 

Sneak-peek video of the podcast.

Here is the podcast in full-length. 

It's also on Spotify,  on Apple podcasts and wherever else you stream your podcasts. A transcript is in the show notes. You can find the transcript here on Apple podcasts and here on transistor.fm, where the podcast is hosted. 

And here it is on YouTube 

 I think there's a lot of curiosity in the field among scientists on what's the best way to use AI as a co-scientist or as a researcher or as a reviewer. 

My story on AI agents in Nature Methods is here.

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