‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
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Toward the end of this year’s Google I/O keynote, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared, with a completely deadpan face, that the company hopes to “reimagine the drug discovery process with the goal of one day solving all disease.”
This is the sort of statement that the phrase “big, if true” was coined for.
What Hassabis was really describing was Gemini for Science, a collection of experimental AI tools designed to encourage researchers to explore and make new discoveries.
I’m often critical of AI health...
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