Health quotes
13 quotes from 9 people
- AI is not really going to take down the internet, and (as discussed in another earlier essay) it’s not going to cure cancer either, at least not anytime soon or on its own.
- I’d bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we’ve learned from a century of neuroscience.
- AI democratizes expertise, which is something different: knowledge operationalized, brought to bear on your particular situation at the moment you need it.
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- More specifically, I believe it will become a norm, in the way that smartphones have become a norm, for billions of people worldwide to have a designated AI health advisor, an AI legal advisor, and a general-purpose AI tutor that they regularly consult with as they navigate their lives.
- Every quote from Reid Hoffman
- If you reason from first principles, not surprisingly, the number of radiologists has gone up...
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- AI systems are particularly good at synthesizing large amounts of information, which makes them well suited to helping doctors consider full medical histories, overlapping conditions, medications, and risk factors all together.
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- Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. Or with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to provide customized tutoring to every student on earth.
- This might seem radical, but life expectancy increased almost 2x in the 20th century (from ~40 years to ~75), so it’s “on trend” that the “compressed 21st” would double it again to 150.
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- AI can provide near free AI tutors to every child on the planet and near free AI physician expertise to everyone on the planet.
- However our regulatory regime and processes are built based on a model of crude industrial revolution era technologies. As a result, we risk harming far more people than we save with our “safety” measures.