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Anthropic runs a biology wetlab (while denying biology to consumers of even their publicly available models, let alone their inhouse ones that only they can access) so I'd expect AI to generate practical and lucrative products soon.

Cure for aging? What do you reckon that'd be worth?

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I always got the sense that solutions for significant "unsolved problems in medicine" would be at least 10 years out from the point of total AI dominance in the theoretical sciences. Doing actual experiments is bottlenecked by real-life constraints (organisms are slow to grow and unpredictable, human laws won't let you build a factory to brute-force biology on a million test tube guinea pigs, let alone humans), and the theoretical side of biology is also relatively underdeveloped, to the point that "solve aging" seems as hard to formulate as Navier-Stokes would have been with 15th-century mathematics.

That would be disaster. It would mean the world would not get rid of trump (and similar) by natural causes. Death is the final - and perhaps the only? - equaliser.

If they find a shortcut (like a viral injected cell-dna damage reset) - that would be big. And can you imagine handling the cure for aging, to societies that still produce exponential people?

A publicly available AI biology wet lab would likely lead to horrific outcomes as people vibe coded virulent pathogens.

A cure that you take once and that's it, your body is that age forever? Now, a supplement that you have to keep taking to stay that biological age, that's where the real money is.

I find it troubling that we will solve aging but won’t solve money

The US spends about 18% (and rising) of its GDP on healthcare, so solving that would go a long way towards solving money.

extremely obvious you don't understand anything about biology

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