Medicine & health
Superhuman
Super strength or super speed? Jump high or fly? Maybe I could see through walls or live forever. What would my power be?
Journey inside the body
What do we look like from the inside? How small would we need to be? Could we make my heart beat faster? Could we fix things along the way?
What does AI mean for our health? How soon will we eradicate diseases like cancer? Will we eventually be able to predict and treat diseases at birth? Create new medicines in minutes, not years? Live for centuries? What about our quality of life? From precision diagnostics to the creation of new medicines and therapies, our portfolio companies are combining science with data and AI to answer these questions and many more.
Meet the dream makers
Hear directly from the visionaries leading the SoftBank Group’s portfolio companies that are shaping the future of medicine and health.
Alec Ford
CEO
What does Karius' AI do?
AI lets us identify over 1,300 causes of disease in 24 hours. We draw on 1.4 trillion data points in our genomic reference database, which has genomic references for the entire sequence of about 16,000 organisms. With this much data to sift through, there is no way humans can match the AI for speed or accuracy.
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Eric Lefkofsky
CEO
How do you think AI will change healthcare in the future?
The first goal of AI should be to ensure that every patientis always on the optimal therapeutic path.
Today, we make a lot of mistakes globally...You're talking trillions of dollars and tens of millions of deaths. All because somebody didn't get the right drug, the right test, the right medication, the right dose.
AI's very first goal should be to make that go away.
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Marcelo Bigal
CEO
Do you see any wider ethical concerns in relation to the use of AI?
I love the idea that AI will help us develop medications that can treat me, my wife, my kids, my friendsBut, I do have concerns about how little thought we, as a society, have given about what we want to achieve with AI.
I am absolutely convinced that it's impossible for us to keep pace with machines, which means we truly need to redefine humanity and be responsible in how we use technology in relation to that humanity.
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