Zuckerberg says a dozen strong AI researchers can drive breakthroughs

Mark Zuckerberg told the "No Priors" podcast that meaningful advances in artificial intelligence don't require hundreds or thousands of researchers. "I think you can really make progress with a very strong group of a dozen or a couple dozen people," he said during a conversation with his wife, Priscilla Chan.

The pair discussed Biohub, their nonprofit aiming to use AI and biology to help scientists cure, prevent, or manage all disease by the end of the century. Zuckerberg argued the organization stands out because it combines frontier biology with frontier AI: "Those labs don't have the frontier biology part attached to it, so I think that there's like also just a very large mission component of this." He said advances in AI have made him optimistic about the initiative's timetable, while acknowledging the work is ongoing.

"It's a dynamic system. So, if you fix something, there will obviously be future things that you need to work on," he said.

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