Sam Rodriques

In light of the advances in mathematics, Michaela Hinks and I have put together a set of Millennium Problems for Biology.

Disclaimer: I run Edison Scientific, a company building an AI Scientist to automate scientific research and development.

Imagine a society of apes trying to play tic tac toe.

I have a background in neuroscience and currently work on AI, so people often ask me for my thoughts on uploading.

These words inspired by grugbrain.dev .

Recently, we were courting an extraordinary candidate, who was deciding between joining FutureHouse or taking a job at one of the...

Monday was my last day as a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute.

First we had hypothesis-driven research.

At the time of writing, it is December 2024, and I am at NeurIPS.

What will it take to build an AI Scientist?

If you want to read what I have written about consciousness previously, see https://www.sam-rodriques.com/post/can-we-build-a-consciousne...

I was speaking recently to a friend who is interested in starting a brain-computer interfacing company about the challenges and...

I think the reason automating science is hard is that protocols often have 20+ steps; but each individual step will fail or require...

Progress in medicine is slow.

Richard Ngo recently posted the following poll on Twitter.

We launched FutureHouse in September.

When people ask me what FutureHouse is doing, I tell them, FutureHouse is automating discovery.

Acknowledgments to Cameron Roots, Adam Marblestone, Tony Kulesa, and Logan Graham.

Lots of people have approached me recently to ask for advice about how to start a Focused Research Organization.

I often hear proposals to build new foundation models for biology.

In a recent article [1], the Wellcome Trust estimated that it would cost roughly $10B over 17 years to reconstruct a whole mouse brain,...