Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI

mikelitoris

How did LLMs not immediately shut down for “biosensitive” prompt or whatever bs they build into them nowadays?

CPLX

That does not seem to be an accurate description of what has happened here. What it looks like is someone with significant biochemical experience and a Harvard PhD has created some kind of drug or chemical that he thinks will be effective for treating Alzheimer's, and that he mentions using Claude Code to help him program some of the complex chemical engineering machines that he used along the way.

ido

Any subject matter experts care to chime in with your gut feeling about where this sits in the "promising potential treatment" to "AI psychosis" spectrum?

comboy

Guy says he created a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease. Huge difference.

jorisw

For those without Twitter accounts https://xcancel.com/DouglasYaoDY/status/2070904914050797582

WarmWash

Painfully editorialized headline. He used AI to program robot arms.

amelius

What does the guy's basement have to do with it? We live in the internet age, we can do anything anywhere. Was there not any other more relevant information to fluff up the headline? By the way, why are we still using twitter?

jqpabc123

With help of AI, i developed a universal cure for all disease --- strychnine. However, it does seem to have a few undesirable side effects.

ChrisArchitect

Link to the overview which is similar to the Tweet text: https://pacepharmaceuticals.com/overview