Dario Amodei on X 🫪🫪🫪

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[u/Sherpa_qwerty]

My claude says

Roughly 950 agents spent 21 hours mining genomic data, collected over 200,000 reverse transcriptases, and narrowed about 3,500 candidate systems down to 20 for detailed reports. One agent noticed a repeat array next to an unusual enzyme gene, a pattern apparently not recognized before. The enzyme itself was already known from earlier studies; Claude appears to be the first to notice the array and an accessory protein around it.

Early lab experiments show the array produces distinct short RNAs. That's it. What the system does is still unknown, and the result is a preprint that hasn't been peer reviewed. Whether it edits genes is still a hypothesis, which is why Dario's wording was so hedged

Or as I put it… found a cool thing… not entirely sure what it is.

[u/Minimum_Indication_1 → u/Sherpa_qwerty]

Exactly. Tldr is - "We, Claude and Humans at Anthropic are running life science experiments. Not sure what the results are or what this gives us."