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Drawn from what Ruxandra Teslo and Jacob Trefethen said
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Geneticist by training and writer on science
Their wordsI told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-clinical research won’t touch that problem, unsexy as it is.
Where this was said
↗Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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Head of global health R&D at Open Philanthropy
Their wordsThose are why I do not believe that AI could end disease within 10 years on its own, nor that 50-100 years of medical progress could occur 5-10 years after powerful AI due to AI progress alone
Where this was said
↗AI will not suddenly lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com
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Cannot both be true
Amodei says powerful AI compresses fifty to a hundred years of biological and medical progress into five to ten. Teslo and Trefethen hold jointly that it will not, because the binding constraint is not the part a model does. Both sides are talking about the same decade and the same technology, and one of them is counting the steps a model cannot take.
Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.