AI's Impact on Medicine and Writing

Will you tell me the most wild thing you've seen AI do?

I think some of the wildest stuff I've seen is around, uh, biology and medicine.

I've seen a number of cases, including Daniela actually, where Claude

diagnosed a medical problem that, uh, you know, a bunch of fancy

doctors had missed. And on the biology side,

like the models are starting to get

surprisingly good at like, you know, f- you know, tasks

like drug design or, you know, computational chemistry or things like...

And I'm just like, wow, you know, as someone who used to be a biologist,

I look at

it and I'm like, wow, that's hard. Like you need a lot of training to do

that, and

like Claude is getting good at it. And that's one area where I think we're

gonna

get a hell of a lot of benefit. Like that's the positive for AI.

We're gonna get these huge, enormous benefits.

Life is gonna get better. The quality of human experience

is gonna get better,

um-

A century of scientific progress

... A, a century of scientific progress

and a century of progress in what

it's like to be human. Like a, go back to 1900.

Think of all the problems we had in 1900, all the reasons people

died prematurely, all the problems they had to suffer,

all the material deprivation that we don't have to deal with today.

Then think of another 100 years of that.

I really believe this century of scientific and medical progress,

if we can get through this, and I, I think we will,

I'm increasingly optimistic

we're gonna have a much, much better world.

I know how much you love writing. You're known for your essays.

Do you use Claude to help write?

Uh, I do. I have not gotten to the point where I

actually allow text

directly written by Claude in, in, because I, I, I just have such a

specific style that I'm, I'm a little picky about it.

But I basically use Claude to like, you know, h- to help me brainstorm,

to help me think through the themes, to help me kind of,

oh, you know, what are some references I could use for this?

Um, so it, it, it kind of plays a supportive role.

I don't know how far we are from Claude being able to write better

than me.

We're not quite there yet, but, but you know, I think,

I think certainly it's

coming.

I love writing too, and I, you know, I feel like writing-