alt Hacker NewsI’ve never really understood the AI can cure disease angle. The AI/ML tools are great at managing complexity, but when it comes to treatment/cures, you have to deal with the complexity anyway. Unless you believe that drug repurposing is the universal rosetta stone for curing disease, and its just a matter of trying all these drugs we have at least run through a safety trial? However, if all these diseases/personalised medicine requires new trials of things, how can that possibly scale (up, and also down to n<10 diseases)?
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I wouldn't say current AI/ML tools are great at managing complexity, they create a lot more complexity per lines of code output than a good engineer would
Given the popularity of grey market peptides, it seems the people prefer hope over safety.
Nobody promises that AI will cure diseases. This article was misleading. An earlier WSJ article wrote:
A letter at the front of the filing says AI could speed up biology and medicine, “potentially curing diseases that have plagued humanity for millennia.” It names cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, rare genetic diseases and infectious diseases as examples.
Anthropic said AI could speed up, and potential help with curing diseases. Not that AI would do that by itself.