2025.6.10. AI for Good - the Future of Health at Gates Discovery Center

6/10, Tuesday, 4-7pm. Gates Foundation's Discovery Center hosted AI for Good - the future of health, with a distinguished panel:

• David Baker, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 and Director of the Institute for Protein Design at UW.
• Matthew Rielly, Philips Ultrasound, who brought a portable AI powered ultrasound machine.
• Bilal A. Mateen, Chief AI Officer at PATH

A good turn-out, but disappointing for me, maybe because I had too high of an expectation. Talk panel didn't start until past 5pm. Then the moderator, Rachel Sibande - Senior Program Officer for AI at Gates, introduced herself in great length (cute and nice, for example, fish in Lake Malawi, but unrelated to the topic) and then introdced the 3 panellists, which took ~20 minutes. At about 5:45, it was Q&A. So the 3 guests didn't have much time to say anything. I didn't learn anything new insight. What a waste of their time. Out of the 3, I found Dr. Mateen to be the better speaker and with more conviction. You can watch the recording at the link in the first sentence.

Path has a table. UW Medical Data Science program has a table. Microsoft's Bill Weeks, Director, AI for Health Research, has a table and gave away his book AI for Good. He seems quite approachable. I didn't know Microsft has an "AI for Good" lab. Not surprising though, at least for PR purpose. These are all recipients of Gates' funding.