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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by user43928 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:48AM (#50484313)
He does not sound unhinged. Amodei's position isn't new, he has said this before.

He thinks it is possible for scientific breakthroughs made with powerful AI to allow us to cure most major disease in the next decade.

He has always described this as a belief or hope, rather than a promise. Comparing this to fraud, as many here do, is deeply unserious.

Maybe Amodei is wrong, and AI will hit a plateau rather than create a revolution in biology and medicine.

I'm certain that neither Gary Marcus nor Eli Lilly's CEO know.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by ForHackernews on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:06AM (#50484623)
Just because he's said equally bonkers things in the past doesn't make this bonkers.

You might not be, but I'm certain that the CEO of Eli Lilly, the 4th largest biomedical firm in the world, knows more about what it takes to cure diseases than the leader of the Claudebot cult does.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by user43928 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:24AM (#50484903)
The CEO of Eli Lilly might know about what it takes to cure diseases today, and he can speculate on the way current AI can assist them.

He cannot see the future anymore than Amodei can to predict what AI will be capable of in 5-10 years.

As for Gary Marcus, that guy clearly couldn't even predict one year ahead.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by ForHackernews on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:37AM (#50485084)
AI is not going to cure cancer in 5-10 years.

If there's a prediction market on this, I want to take the AImaxxers' money.

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