OpenAI's Sam Altman and Science VP Kevin Weil hype AI-assisted dog cancer story ignoring there's no proof the vaccine worked
An Australian AI consultant used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and Grok to find a possible treatment for his dog Rosie's incurable cancer. The story went viral after high-profile AI executives like OpenAI's Greg Brockman and Deepmind's Demis Hassabis shared it as proof of what AI can already do. But there's no evidence the AI-designed vaccine actually worked.<br /> The article OpenAI's Sam Altman and Science VP Kevin Weil hype AI-assisted dog cancer story ignoring there's no proof the vaccine worked appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
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