Guest: Mark Anderson

In this episode of Earley AI Podcasts, host Seth Earley welcomes Mark Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Pattern Computer, for a fascinating exploration of what lies beyond the current AI mainstream. With a career grounded in technology, strategy, and scientific innovation—including receiving the Alexandra J. Nobel Award for his contributions to computing and medicine—Mark brings nearly a decade of experience in developing proprietary pattern recognition technologies that move far beyond traditional machine learning models.

Together, Seth and Mark dive deep into the journey of Pattern Computer, unveiling its revolutionary Pattern Discovery Engine—a platform with the unique ability to make discoveries in data that have eluded conventional approaches. Mark explains how his passion for science and the shortcomings of the classic scientific method sparked the creation of new mathematical and architectural foundations in AI, leading to major breakthroughs not only in medicine but also across enterprise applications.

Key Takeaways:

• Origins of Pattern Computer: The story behind the formation of Pattern Computer and its foundational mission to turn pattern discovery from an art into a science.

• A New Approach to AI: How the Pattern Discovery Engine goes beyond finding incremental improvements, enabling true discovery by flipping the traditional scientific method.

• Breakthroughs in Medicine: The real-world impact of Pattern Computer’s approach, including the discovery of gene patterns and the development of new drugs for triple negative breast cancer.

• Pattern Discovery vs. Large Language Models: The critical differences between pattern discovery engines and LLMs, and how these technologies can work together to combine human-friendly communication with genuine scientific discovery.

• Explainable AI and Ethics: Why true explainability, interpretability, and ethical data are at the heart of next-generation AI—and how Pattern Computer is leading the way with interpretable outputs and transparency.

• Enterprise & Science Applications: Use cases in aerospace, mining, healthcare, and more, where Pattern Computer’s approach has led to major discoveries in seconds—successes that eluded brute-force methods for years.

• Advice for Organizations: How businesses and innovators can access and test the Pattern Discovery Engine for their own complex data challenges.

Insightful Quote from Mark Anderson:

“Instead of having a hypothesis and then you run, you want to go again, it’s the opposite. You’re not allowed to have any hypothesis. You can’t bring your bias to the game. And instead of that, you have good data. You run the data and you generate the hypothesis. That’s the right way to solve problems.”

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markandersonpredicts/

Website: https://www.patterncomputer.com

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