Scientific Progress
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
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Zuckerberg: CZI avoids specific diseases, focuses on accelerating overall science
“We're basically choosing to not focus on any specific disease and like verticalize. Our strategy is one of trying to accelerate scientific progress overall.”
Altman: AI will meaningfully increase the rate of scientific progress
“And if AI can help people meaningfully increase the rate of scientific progress, which I believe it will, I think that will be a triumph.”
Altman: Raw model intelligence is the primary bottleneck to AI accelerating science
“I think the models are just not smart enough, which sounds like a annoying, low information kind of cop-out answer, but I think it's like deeply fundamentally true. Like the models just aren't smart enough. You fix that one thing, all these other things get be…”