Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
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Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
#2How did LLMs not immediately shut down for “biosensitive” prompt or whatever bs they build into them nowadays?
Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
#3That does not seem to be an accurate description of what has happened here.
What it looks like is someone with significant biochemical experience and a Harvard PhD has created some kind of drug or chemical that he thinks will be effective for treating Alzheimer's, and that he mentions using Claude Code to help him program some of the complex chemical engineering machines that he used along the way.
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#4Any subject matter experts care to chime in with your gut feeling about where this sits in the "promising potential treatment" to "AI psychosis" spectrum?
Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
#5How did LLMs not immediately shut down for “biosensitive” prompt or whatever bs they build into them nowadays?
Opus doesn't do that (at least it never has to me). I'm pretty sure codex doesn't either. It's just Fable
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#6How did LLMs not immediately shut down for “biosensitive” prompt or whatever bs they build into them nowadays?
That behavior was only observed with the short lived Fable preview, Opus and other models do not seem to pose such limitation.
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#7Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
#8Guy says he created a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease. Huge difference.
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#9For those without Twitter accounts
Re: Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
#10Any subject matter experts care to chime in with your gut feeling about where this sits in the "promising potential treatment" to "AI psychosis" spectrum?
It's closer right now to interesting hobby project from a guy who's trained in chemistry, like a guy who's a mechanic keeping a project car.
Maybe he publishes and it goes somewhere, I have a feeling getting approval for trials will be challenging with his setup as it is now.
I do like the "do chemistry the old fashion way" ethos though. I wish he added a blurb about why he's doing it this way