Why does it matter?
If true, AI would compress decades of medical discovery into a few years of real-world pressure.
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Thus, it is my guess that powerful AI could at least 10x the rate of these discoveries, giving us the next 50-100 years of biological progress in 5-10 years. To summarize the above, my basic prediction is that AI-enabled biology and medicine will allow us to compress the progress that human biologists would have achieved over the next 50-100 years into 5-10 years.
Dario Amodei