John: People tend to think AI is going to cure cancer with a prompt like, 'What's the cure for cancer?' and AI outputs some E = mc²-level math equation.
More realistically, it might be that a guy gets really rich from AI image generation, then funnels that into a medical technology that can detect cancer a couple months earlier, so cancer rates decline a bunch.
But it's not just like, you prompt it and get a magic pill. It's much more complicated than that. Because curing cancer, or reducing cancer rates, is a process — like an industrial process — more than a single clever trick.
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