Andrew White
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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So what is the bottleneck in that?
I don't think it's like the intelligence of the first experiment.
I think the bottleneck might be something like right now, I think the bottleneck is something silly like knowing
What's the lead time on all the reagents that you need and what is available in the lab?
Okay.
Like, you know, I think whether GPT 5.2 Codex Max or Opus 4.5 is gonna do better is probably doesn't matter.
It's just a matter of like which one's gonna have all the information about what's in the lab and how much will it cost, how long will it take.
Um, and also I guess the the kind of frontier that I think about for these models is taste.
Which is like a lot of science.
I mean, of course, we want to, you know, accelerate technology, we want to improve the economy, we want to improve people's life expectancies, want everyone to be happier.
But a lot of what is done in science is is based around like human preferences.
Like why do people study
uh, a particular worm.
Well, like there is a theory that by studying the worm it has led to good medicines or it's led to discovering new genes.
But also people studied it the past, people's careers depend on that worm and people want to write papers about that worm.
And and so there's a a human element to some of this.
And I think that the um models don't capture that so well about knowing what is an exciting result and what is a boring result.
I see.
So I think that's like a mm scientific taste.
It's like a broad category of of all these things.
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