Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup
Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? When announcing Gamgee on X, Conyngham said “I used chatgpt + computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for her tumour. Several of her tumours shrank.”RelatedNo, ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancerNo, this is not a fly uploaded to a computerConyngham, who stresses on Gamgee’s website that he is “not a biologist,” credits that intervention with adding years to Rosie’s life.
- ▪Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog?
- ▪When announcing Gamgee on X, Conyngham said “I used chatgpt + computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for her tumour.
- ▪Several of her tumours shrank.”RelatedNo, ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancerNo, this is not a fly uploaded to a computerConyngham, who stresses on Gamgee’s website that he is “not a biologist,” credits that intervention with adding years t
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