Only the Top 1 Percent: A Tech CEO Says a Chatbot Beats the Other 99%

For the best insured patient, the model competes with the top one percent. For millions of others, it competes with no one.

Dario Amodei runs Anthropic, one of the largest artificial intelligence companies in the world. On Stripe’s “A Cheeky Pint” podcast, in conversation with John Collison, he repeated something Nobel Prize winning biologists had told him. They said they would only see the top 1 percent of doctors. For the other 99 percent, a large language model gives bett…