

Yeah, totally agreed.
It’s a tough balancing act to filter the snake oil while taking viable moonshots, but I think that’s a niche that the US regulatory regime has generally done well on, all things considered.


Yeah, totally agreed.
It’s a tough balancing act to filter the snake oil while taking viable moonshots, but I think that’s a niche that the US regulatory regime has generally done well on, all things considered.


Based on the linked paper, it reads like they took an existing open weight LLM, tacked on a scheme to parse and output genomics data, and finetuned it a bit. It’s the same approach chatgpt and other big-name models use for reading and producing images, but applied to a different data format.


They’re skipping that whole “human trial” thing by going for a compassionate use exemption
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded-access


Worth reading the original opinion appealed here: great technical writing and explanation of reasoning by the judge
Yeah, it’s sysprompt only, so you can trivially sidestep it via:
As usual, Anthropic are just opticsmaxxing because they don’t want to get completely buried in a courtroom. And as other people have pointed out upthread already, it’s already a bit of a moot point since the Chinese models are already eating Claude’s lunch and will do the same stuff without complaint.