Modern biology relies on genome sequencing and CRISPR, but both hit limits. AI could speed up biological discovery 10 to 100 times over, though CRISPR still struggles with reliability in animal experiments.
If we think about what's really advanced biology, it's really disproportionately a few technologies that kind of power everything. So, genome sequencing, just the ability to read the genome, fundamental to most of modern biology. More recently, CRISPR, the ability to edit the genome, fundamental to many experiments where we want to intervene in animal experiments. Starting to become important to pharmaceuticals and curing diseases, although there's a while to go and it needs to be more reliable. There are a lot of other techniques that are needed. I think if we get AI right, it could increase by 10x, maybe 100x, the rate at which we invent these discoveries.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Rep. Ritchie Torres on Innovation & The West | Hill and Valley Forum 2024
