Friedberg explains LLMs are text predictors using internet data to generate word-by-word predictions, not true AI.
“They were able to suck up all the text on the internet and use that text to make a prediction on what the answer should be when someone asks a question word by word.”
Friedberg notes DNA sequencing costs dropped from $100 million twenty years ago to $100 today, enabling new biological discovery approaches.
“Now DNA sequencing costs have gotten so cheap, right? Twenty years ago it cost $100,000,000 to sequence the human genome. Today it costs 100, and you can do it in a few hours.”
Friedberg notes DNA sequencing costs dropped from $100 million to $100 for a human genome over twenty years.
“Twenty years ago it cost a $100,000,000 to sequence the human genome. Today it costs a 100, and you can do it in a few hours.”