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Basecamp Research is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups.
Stay tuned for more episodes recorded live at GTC, and hear more from Lorenz in this GTC session.
The AI Podcast Basecamp's Phil Lorenz on Combining AI With Biodiversity Data Ep. 223
Time Stamps 1:31: What is Basecamp Research?
3:08: How does the process of sequencing biodiversity work?
5:15: What is the collected biodiversity data used for?
7:56: Gene editing and how biodiversity data can enhance it
9:00: How the development of AI has affected Basecamp's work
14:33: Basecamp's breakthroughs
16:49: AI and machine learning-related challenges Basecamp has encountered
26:02: Ethical considerations in data collecting
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