A 19-year-old student in Sinclair's lab used AI to process exabytes of global data in 2 weeks and returned evidence supporting Sinclair's theory about how cells store memories of youth.
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This segment captures the human face of the AI revolution in science. Sinclair describes assigning a 19-year-old straight out of high school the task of searching all publicly available biological databases — exabytes of data — for evidence supporting his theory that cells store a 'record' of youth somewhere in their DNA. Two weeks later, the teenager returned with what Sinclair's team called 'the smoking gun.' AI processed what would have been impossible for any team of scientists in any reasonable timeframe. Sinclair also addresses the broader transformation: his lab of 20 people is essentially doubling to 40 through AI leverage, experiments that once required years now take weeks, and he is confident that drug-making on a smartphone is coming within a generation. The only bottleneck is now regulatory rather than scientific.
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