Dr. Terry Sejnowski

We happened to talk about this issue about he's using these large language models now for his research. I said, oh, wow, how do you use it? And he said, we use it as an idea pump. What do you mean idea pump? Well, we give it all of the experiments that we've done. And we have the literature, it's access to the literature and so forth. And we ask it for ideas for new experiments.

We happened to talk about this issue about he's using these large language models now for his research. I said, oh, wow, how do you use it? And he said, we use it as an idea pump. What do you mean idea pump? Well, we give it all of the experiments that we've done. And we have the literature, it's access to the literature and so forth. And we ask it for ideas for new experiments.

Amazing.

Amazing.

Amazing.

And they might not actually come up with the same answers, right? Right. Actually, this is something that is happening in medicine, by the way, for doctors who are using AI as an assistant. This is really interesting. And this is dermatology. It was a paper in Nature, skin lesions. There's 2,000 skin lesions. Some of them are cancerous and others are benign.

And they might not actually come up with the same answers, right? Right. Actually, this is something that is happening in medicine, by the way, for doctors who are using AI as an assistant. This is really interesting. And this is dermatology. It was a paper in Nature, skin lesions. There's 2,000 skin lesions. Some of them are cancerous and others are benign.

And they might not actually come up with the same answers, right? Right. Actually, this is something that is happening in medicine, by the way, for doctors who are using AI as an assistant. This is really interesting. And this is dermatology. It was a paper in Nature, skin lesions. There's 2,000 skin lesions. Some of them are cancerous and others are benign.

And so in any case, they tested the expert doctors and then they tested an AI and they were both doing about 90%, right? However, if you let the doctor use the AI, it boosts the doctor to 98%.

And so in any case, they tested the expert doctors and then they tested an AI and they were both doing about 90%, right? However, if you let the doctor use the AI, it boosts the doctor to 98%.

And so in any case, they tested the expert doctors and then they tested an AI and they were both doing about 90%, right? However, if you let the doctor use the AI, it boosts the doctor to 98%.

Yes. And what's going on there? It's very interesting. So it turns out that Although they got the same 90%, they had different expertise that the AI had access to more data. And so it could look at the lesions that were rare that the doctor may never have seen.

Yes. And what's going on there? It's very interesting. So it turns out that Although they got the same 90%, they had different expertise that the AI had access to more data. And so it could look at the lesions that were rare that the doctor may never have seen.

Yes. And what's going on there? It's very interesting. So it turns out that Although they got the same 90%, they had different expertise that the AI had access to more data. And so it could look at the lesions that were rare that the doctor may never have seen.

But the doctor has more in-depth knowledge of the most common ones that he's seen over and over again and knows the subtleties and so forth. But so putting them together, it makes so much sense that they're going to improve if they work together.

But the doctor has more in-depth knowledge of the most common ones that he's seen over and over again and knows the subtleties and so forth. But so putting them together, it makes so much sense that they're going to improve if they work together.

But the doctor has more in-depth knowledge of the most common ones that he's seen over and over again and knows the subtleties and so forth. But so putting them together, it makes so much sense that they're going to improve if they work together.

And I think that now what you're saying is that using AI as a tool for discovery with the expert who's interpreting and looking at the arguments, the statistical arguments, and also looking at the paper maybe in a new way, Maybe that's the future of science. Maybe that's what's going to happen. Everybody's worried about, oh, AI is going to replace us.

And I think that now what you're saying is that using AI as a tool for discovery with the expert who's interpreting and looking at the arguments, the statistical arguments, and also looking at the paper maybe in a new way, Maybe that's the future of science. Maybe that's what's going to happen. Everybody's worried about, oh, AI is going to replace us.

And I think that now what you're saying is that using AI as a tool for discovery with the expert who's interpreting and looking at the arguments, the statistical arguments, and also looking at the paper maybe in a new way, Maybe that's the future of science. Maybe that's what's going to happen. Everybody's worried about, oh, AI is going to replace us.