Medicine

“If you can, if you get vision, hearing, balance, and a kilobit per second of motor control, you're halfway to the matrix. And this takes you into some like really trippy interpret reinterpretations of medicine.”

“I think that the, like, level of just human flourishing that's going to happen as we start to one by one eradicate diseases the same way that we're currently eradicating open problems in math is going to be incredible.”

“That's exactly one of the areas where the data layer, where you can clearly see that the data layer is where value is going to accrue. Because the GPUs Are the same GPUs in both cases. The problem is that, that data infrastructure, the flywheel, the data colle…”

“We have 250 medicines on shortage in the United States.”

“Because 95% of medicine is guessing.”

“And I think AI maniacs will compete in medicine, law, business consulting, banking, wherever it is, we let them compete.”

“Approximately, the 1.5 to two percent of medicines get expired.”

“Is that incredible scientists have already cracked the code on most of the medicines we need to protect us from most of the diseases that will claim most of our lives.”

“And so I think that that, for that reason, natural language is the only possible way to connect all the different pieces of data we need in biology, medicine, or any domain for that matter.”

“If you get a serious, you know, kind of medical concern, if you're not using one or more frontier agents as a second opinion, you're making a desperately bad mistake, right?”

“One of the reasons that I like the neural engineering approach is it produces these very large effect sizes. Like, cochlear implants, really, if you are deaf due to sensorineural hearing loss, they really work. Or if you've ever seen a video of a Parkinson's p…”

“We probably have 2000 manmade approved medicines versus natural products or vitamins or other things, and maybe 400 unique mechanisms.”

“In the US, the most expensive healthcare system in the world, we spend 10 cents on the dollar on medicine. The other 90 cents go through everything else that medicine's trying to prevent.”

“I'm not sure it's yet a competitive disadvantage, but I can imagine that becoming true in the next year or two as your tools get really, really good.”

“So many industries like law or education or medicine that really were not big buyers of software in the past that are going to be transformed in the next five years.”

“Basically healthcare is, a doctor's job is an informatics problem, right? You're computing between, when you're a doctor and you go see a patient, you're computing between a database of what you know about a patient, what you know about medicine, and what inte…”

“With the advancement of foundation models compute is no longer a constraint in medicine, which has opened up this market opportunity in this portal for healthcare to really be built as a product.”

“And what we found was that the medicines, they didn't make plaque go away per se. They just transformed that plaque from the good to the, from the bad to the good plaque over time, and that was the mechanism of stabilization.”

“And so it's just, and then they always say in medicine that things take about 20 years to change medicine. And if you think about it, that is about the time that it takes for one generation to retire and a new generation to come about. So, you know, once peopl…”

“I think we will end up seeing work completion done in very sophisticated manners, like in medicine and in coding, like a lot in coding and a lot also in, you know, other areas too, that will kind of bring us back to the chat GBT moment, but it will be speciali…”

“Women, you know, women have been historically underserved by medicine because people weren't studying women's physiology with, you know, in clinical trials up until the last 20 years or so.”

“I think we'll get to that point where medicine will be about incorporating all this data. Data about me as a patient, data about everyone else that's like me to be able to draw the best conclusions. That's something that is just a computer problem. And that mu…”

“Actually Sam is having so much impact in medicine, probably more than I could have ever had as a doctor myself.”

“Yeah, I was actually the first company to use deep learning in medicine, so I kind of founded the field.”

“They use large language models to generate new protein sequences. And I think that will change all of medicine in the next decade in a massive way.”

“I think people confuse medicine and science. They're actually not the same thing. And like, I didn't learn one shred of scientific thought in medical school.”

“It's hard for me to imagine that AI will not play a meaningful impact in medicine. I don't think it will be on the time scale that People talk about it. I think people talk about it like, oh, we're just two years away from this.”

“I would gather that there is a historical trend line that shows a waxing and waning of where the top talent go. Like where are the best and brightest out of college go? How many of them are going to Goldman Sachs? How many of them are starting, going to startu…”

“Finance, consulting, law, medicine, those were the like easy ones. And they had a lot of the characteristics of school. Like there was a clear application process. There was a clear steps. These steps were kind of imposed upon you. Like the, it was a very comf…”

“Over 60% of the new medicines that reach the market today were developed by small and mid cap biotech companies.”

“There's nothing about our medicines, at least chemical medicines or biological or whatever medicines that are necessarily about the part of the body it's in besides distribution and delivery. But we're starting to rethink how we think about that and say like, …”

“Cells are able to do that and the ability to imagine understanding and controlling that would be the biggest revolution in medicine, health, maybe even society that humanity has ever experienced.”

“We are actually on the precipice of creating machines, biologically engineered or designed cells, and proteins that can go into your body and do specific things and enhance your life and improve your health and solve, you know, disease.”

“There was also perhaps a more accessible scientific base to medicine, whereas finance and economics are often based on theory and on retrospective type of analyses and long run averages and things like that.”

“In terms of volume, they're the largest producer of medicines, With seventy billion doses a year across a wide range of therapeutic areas from cancer to cardiovascular disease and more.”

“I think the way we do medicine now is totally Byzantine. It's just really ridiculous how crude we are at what we do.”

“Like right now in medicine, a lot of times we store the result of a diagnostic, but we don't keep the measurement, which actually prohibits us from going back and building models that, you know, in reusing the measurement.”

“And specifically, I want to talk about our increasing ability to program living things to serve as medicines for us.”

“Without schooling, formal schooling, you can probably do it better and learn it better yourself. It's only like the most traditional professions now, like medicine and other like certain types of law that require this really formal stuff.”

“In the particular case of medicine, it's not used more already because, of course, the doctors are also the gatekeepers Of the system, and they're not very interested in replacing themselves or their job that they like best by machines.”