OpenAI’s Genius Plan Can’t Possibly Fail

OpenAI has a plan to cure cancer! It’s … not very good. Learn more by reading “How AI Can, and Can't, Cure Cancer” at https://curecancer.ai/ You can support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Siliconversations Special thanks to my Patreon supporters: Sentient Hat Tier: Maple the Finn Nathanaël Havez MyDailyPintOfGremlinMilk Matias Badino Tom your personal annoying Bug Kelly P Old_leginary (hun vaze) C_Bookie Alexandre Le Mercier Big Sentient Hat Tier: darkprincedarkstar Emmanuel Goldstein Red Ransil Aaron Smith Sirhaian Julian Schulz Dawid Kubicki Harrier 🦊 Snababo Jacob Mejer botfly Borderlands2 screaming gun Call Your Reps About AI Safety Patrick Kennedy Drew Spartz Sarunas Budreckis Linkie Pup raided Drarko Bread Shark Sayhan Yalvaçer Jeffrey qqlululu MrConchman Sequoia michael fares David Siliconversations is financially supported by the Future of Life Institute. Go to https://futureoflife.org/ to learn more. All my opinions are my own. This video was: Written, directed and narrated by Siliconversations Illustrated and edited by Maris Tockler Sources: How AI Can, and Can't, Cure Cancer https://curecancer.ai/ Looking Glass Universe: The Embarrassingly Simple Reason AI Can't Cure Cancer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFcyWFK1q8I Nature News: AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01592-0 Claim: There are approx. 37 trillion cells in the human body Source: Annals of Human Biology: An estimation of the number of cells in the human body - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/03014460.2013.807878 Claim: There are approx. 7 billion billion billion atoms in the human body Source: The Wikipedia article “Composition of the human body” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body says that there are 7 octillion (billion billion billion) atoms in the human body, citing this blog as their source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250207160554/https://education.jlab.org/qa/mathatom_04.html I was suspicious of this source because it claimed that 99% of the body's mass is composed of Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon, while the Wikipedia article shows a diagram claiming that the body is 3% Nitrogen. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/201_Elements_of_the_Human_Body.02.svg/500px-201_Elements_of_the_Human_Body.02.svg.png I don’t know which of these claims is correct, and I didn’t want to go down a whole research rabbit hole about it. Fortunately, the Wikipedia article also provides a table that shows estimates of the mass and atomic percent of each atom in a 69 kg body, sourced from the book: Emsley J (25 August 2011). Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements. OUP Oxford. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-19-960563-7. Retrieved 17 June 2016. I did some quick maths using the table, and based on the values provided for Oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen, I estimated that a 69kg human body has 6.5, 6.87 and 6.65 Octillion atoms, respectively. Some people weigh more than 69kg, so 7 Octillion is a good enough estimate for the throwaway claim I made in this YouTube video. AI Use Disclosure: YouTube generated the subtitles, which I partially formatted using Claude.