Ofc the claim is ridiculous, but I like that it is audacious. It would be better if he said something like "dissease burden from these categories will go down by 50% by 2050 and 90% by 2080". That's testable and you can track progress
Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles"
“You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade."
"And I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way."
"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia."
"We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.”
@EricTopol Would be much better if he said something like: 80% reduction in loss of fuction/life until 2050 in each group (in developed world). I think more realistic is 2100 though.
@AriSchulman You would probably do it only for higher risk couples. If you would have good data, you could predict partially from parents genetics and recommend to go IVF route or not. It is exacly the same for many other defects already. Not realistic in 10, but maybe in 100 years.
@HamiltonCain@dhaaruni Well, you can study and measure these risks. We are super early, ofc. Eventually, you will be able to change like 20 genes to get most of the disease reduction. And it doesn't mean you will never be sad, just not bedridden.
@_twolfram Thanks for the answer. Since the source data seems to be the major bottleneck to progress, I hope we can speed up the collection. It would be cool if more startups also spawned in that area.
Also wonder how many decades before CRISPR-like tools can be used as treatment/prevent.
@cremieuxrecueil Agree, but seems we are still decades away from collecting high-quality data to make this really useful. This requires AI and a societal focus on data collection.
I don't understand the sentiment that Opus 5.5 is some kind of peak intelligence. Every single PR, there is a "oh, you are right, I overlooked this" moment.
Yes, it is amazing model but there is still so much to go before it really saturates human thought
@amasad Emotions are literally just a comptementary mode of brain computing processing, it is not some background process, it is the core brain processing
Until today, agents could buy about 2,000 tools through x402.
We just 10x'd that to 20,000+ 🚀
In partnership with @coinbase, we’re launching x402 support to give autonomous agents access to the largest marketplace of web automation tools.
No account, API keys, or human in the loop.
Apple raised MacBook prices by $300. RAM prices up 89%. Everyone's charging more for memory.
Apify just doubled the RAM limits across all plans. Faster runs, more Actors at once, headroom for the heavy jobs. Same price 👇🧵