AI Transforming Surveillance, Drugs, Fusion
Key Points
- AI‑driven geolocation tools like Boston‑based Goos Spy can instantly pinpoint where a street‑level photo was taken, raising significant privacy concerns and prompting the startup to restrict access to law‑enforcement users only.
- In drug discovery, Demis Hassabis’s Isomorphic Labs claims AI can shrink the development timeline from years to weeks, with its first AI‑designed compounds already moving into clinical trials.
- Commonwealth Fusion, a MIT spin‑out, is using AI to predict and control plasma states inside tokamak reactors, aiming to stabilize nuclear‑fusion reactions and bring the technology closer to commercial viability.
- A Canadian streamer’s claim of building a tabletop fusion device in 36 hours with the help of the AI Claude highlights the need for cautious scrutiny of sensational AI‑related assertions.
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# AI Transforming Surveillance, Drugs, Fusion **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ako_jF6LQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ako_jF6LQ) **Duration:** 00:03:51 ## Summary - AI‑driven geolocation tools like Boston‑based Goos Spy can instantly pinpoint where a street‑level photo was taken, raising significant privacy concerns and prompting the startup to restrict access to law‑enforcement users only. - In drug discovery, Demis Hassabis’s Isomorphic Labs claims AI can shrink the development timeline from years to weeks, with its first AI‑designed compounds already moving into clinical trials. - Commonwealth Fusion, a MIT spin‑out, is using AI to predict and control plasma states inside tokamak reactors, aiming to stabilize nuclear‑fusion reactions and bring the technology closer to commercial viability. - A Canadian streamer’s claim of building a tabletop fusion device in 36 hours with the help of the AI Claude highlights the need for cautious scrutiny of sensational AI‑related assertions. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ako_jF6LQ&t=0s) **AI in Surveillance and Drug Discovery** - The speaker outlines how AI can instantly geolocate street‑level photos for law‑enforcement applications while also dramatically speeding up pharmaceutical research by using AlphaFold‑based models to design drugs in weeks instead of years. ## Full Transcript
three real use cases of AI that I think
are interesting right now one is in
spying one is in nuclear power and one
is in drugs so we'll start with a spying
first Boston based startup Goos spy had
a public facing website for a while
where you could upload any Street Corner
type photo anything that's at street
level and it would immediately identify
where it was taken in the world this
reminds me of the uh guy known as
rainbolt online who would look at any
photo and immediately geog guess where
it was well AI could do that too and AI
did do that and that's what GEOS spy is
all about and there are obviously
privacy implications here because you
can imagine taking picture of you and
your friends like suddenly like it could
be uploaded everyone would know exactly
where you were Etc geosy closed their
public facing portal after some public
objections and is now marketing the
product only to law
enforcement it will certainly get youed
number two on the drug side deise
hassabis is the 2024 Nobel Prize winner
and has already won a Nobel for AI I
don't I don't know if you know that but
like he won for AI for Alpha fold 2
which is a protune folder he founded a
startup after winning the Nobel and the
startup is called isomorphic labs and
all it does is it focuses on drug
Discovery and what he is saying is that
in his opinion drug Discovery is going
to go from a decade long process to
weeks or months with AI and the first AI
designed drugs from his lab are going
into clinical trials the next couple of
months so if you are wondering like is
AI actually making a practical
difference yeah we're moving to clinical
trials much faster than we used to and
that's going to speed up so that's
really exciting number three on the
nuclear side uh Commonwealth Fusion
which is a little spin out of MIT uh MIT
produces these research driven spin all
the time uh they're working on
stabilizing Plasma in tokumx for nuclear
fusion uh through Ai and so I'll explain
what that is a tokomak is little Hollow
tube it has magnets in it it contains
the plasma the plasma is very hot for
nuclear fusion if the plasma touches the
container it's going to melt it you
don't want it to do that it's also very
unstable and so what they're trying to
do is figure out how to predict future
states of plasma in the nuclear fusion
Reactor with artificial intelligence so
that they can better manage the magnet
power array to contain the plasma and
sustain the reaction for
longer so that's exciting because
nuclear fusion is one of those
Technologies that's been about 20 years
away for the last 60 years uh and so
maybe something like that will actually
help us to get to a point where it's
more commercially viable we'll see
speaking of fusion this is a weird one
uh and it goes to how you have to sort
of be thoughtful about
what you see AI doing online uh there's
a Canadian streamer who claims that he
built nuclear fusion on his kitchen
tabletop talking only to
Claude in 36
hours nobody can figure out if he's
telling the truth or not he streamed the
whole thing but no one can figure out if
what what we saw at the end was actually
nuclear fusion or not so I I think one
of the things that's interesting with AI
is that it does give us these uh
increased capability sets but we also
don't really know where the edges are
because this is all so new and so this
is an example of something where we
aren't sure is it possible because you
use CLA to do this or
not you tell me what are some
interesting use cases of AI that I
haven't heard about yet or haven't
mentioned here yet I'd be curious to
hear more cheers