AI curing cancer has become a meme. This Google researcher is actually trying to do it.

Tech Memo author Alistair Barr with Yossi Matias (right), head of Google Research, at Google I/O. Alistair Barr/Business Insider A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. AI progress is increasingly framed around automation and job displacement. But Google executive Yossi Matias thinks the technology will be most important as a tool for helping humans make scientific breakthroughs. As head of Google Resea...