O'Driscoll: Politically Savvy Regulators Will Outmaneuver AI Leaders
“We have people who are brilliant scientists who politically are utter morons, and the people who are utter morons at AI but brilliant at politics are gonna have us for lunch.”
Doronichev: Fully autonomous AI pharma operating system is 10-20 years away
“The holy grail of AI scientists. So the automated system that makes its own scientific hypotheses, And then conducts experiments, you know, maybe manipulating robotic lab and then feeding this data back into the system, making better decisions, more hypotheses…”
Wickramasekara: AI in scientific discovery will focus on augmentation over autonomy next 1-2 years
“While I would love for that to happen, and I'm maybe more optimistic on a longer time scale, we will get there. I think in the short term, I'm next one to two years, which, you know, already feels like an eternity in AI time. I'm a little bit more bullish on s…”
O'Driscoll: AI talent bounties will end as marginal returns shrink
“My, I mean, my assumption is that at some point, the marginal return on the next scientist gets negative, so you probably stop spending a hundred million bucks a pop, but you know, I get what he's done.”
Evans: AI scientists possess no special expertise on global geopolitical threats
“One of the sort of fallacies here is a sort of an appeal to authority, which is, you know, well, that person is an AI scientist, so they must know if this is a threat to world peace. No, they don't. They're an AI scientist. They don't know anything more about,…”