{"id":148860,"date":"2022-10-25T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/at-internal-ai-conference-amazon-executives-discuss-using-machine-learning-to-revolutionize-drug-discovery-genomics-clinical-trials-and-more"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:27:32","slug":"at-internal-ai-conference-amazon-executives-discuss-using-machine-learning-to-revolutionize-drug-discovery-genomics-clinical-trials-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/at-internal-ai-conference-amazon-executives-discuss-using-machine-learning-to-revolutionize-drug-discovery-genomics-clinical-trials-and-more","title":{"rendered":"At internal AI conference, Amazon executives discuss using machine learning to revolutionize drug discovery, genomics, clinical trials, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-internal-ai-conference-amazon-executives-discuss-using-machine-learning-to-revolutionize-drug-discovery-genomics-clinical-trials-and-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insider obtained documents that reveal the topics, goals and challenges discussed. Together, they show Amazon\u2019s ambition to take on Google\u2019s DeepMind, a pioneer in AI-powered scientific discovery. This could take Amazon from dabbling in healthcare services, and turn it into a potentially serious player in the future of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demarcation line between core Amazon\/AWS business and life science and healthcare is shifting,\u201d said Amazon scientist and senior solutions architect Sergey Menis, according to a transcript of his comments seen by Insider. \u201cWe are increasingly more specialized in healthcare and life sciences.\u201d An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Menis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.science\/working-at-amazon\/amazon-scientist-sergey-menis-contributes-to-development-of-vaccine-approach-against-hiv\">developed a nanoparticle<\/a> that underpins a promising HIV vaccine candidate. He was joined at last week\u2019s Amazon Machine Learning Conference by Amazon\u2019s chief medical officer Taha Kass-Hout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insider obtained documents that reveal the topics, goals and challenges discussed. Together, they show Amazon\u2019s ambition to take on Google\u2019s DeepMind, a pioneer in AI-powered scientific discovery. This could take Amazon from dabbling in healthcare services, and turn it into a potentially serious player in the future of medicine. \u201cThe demarcation line between core Amazon\/AWS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}