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🎙️ Masaki Yamada — Head of Product at Invert, helping biomanufacturing teams quantify trust in AI.

👩‍🔬 Hosts: Sura Hadi & Mike Ouren

🎧 Episode Title:“Beyond the Algorithm: Measuring AI Confidence in Biomanufacturing”

Hallucinations, trust, and the space between - that’s where the future of science is being written.From NASA’s microbial fuel cells to AI-native bioprocessing, Masaki Yamada joins us to unpack how Invert is helping scientists measure something once thought unquantifiable: confidence in AI.

This episode dives deep into the evolving relationship between humans and algorithms in the biomanufacturing world — exploring trust, reproducibility, and what it means to build a digital scientist that actually knows when it’s wrong.

🎯 What You’ll Learn

• Why “hallucinations” in AI aren’t always bad — and when they definitely are.
• How Invert uses evals to measure model reliability in real-world biotech settings.
• The difference between objective vs. subjective AI benchmarking.
• How digital transformation is really going inside major biopharma labs.
• What the “AI-native scientist” of the future looks like.

💡 Picks of the Week

📚 Masaki Yamada – The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

🧰 Mike Ouren – The MagSafe Grip & “The Ticket” Seatbelt Gadget

🧠 Sura Hadi – KDP self-publishing exploration for indie creators

👇 What’s the right balance between creativity and control when it comes to AI in science? Drop your thoughts in the comments — we’ll feature the best takes next episode.

🎬 Chapters

00:00 – Cold Open

00:15 – Welcome to the AI Thought Leaders Series

01:00 – The Hallucination Debate: Creativity vs. Accuracy

03:16 – What “Trust” Means in Biomanufacturing

07:16 – Defining Confidence in AI Outputs

10:06 – Human Benchmarking & Evals

11:34 – NASA Origins: From Space Fuel Cells to Biotech

15:04 – Inside Invert: Structuring Data for Transparency

19:44 – From Paper to Platform: Digital Transformation Realities

24:21 – Are Labs Really Digitized?

25:46 – Adoption, Resistance & Culture Change

27:55 – Security, IP & Data Trust

28:28 – Designing the Future: People-in-the-Loop Automation

33:05 – Digital Cognition: The Next Phase of AI Integration

37:51 – The AI-Native Scientist

40:01 – Picks of the Week

46:56 – Wrap-Up

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📌 SHORTS (Quick Clips from the Episode)

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