• Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks says AI helps him stay up to date on the latest science. • Ricks said OpenAI's ChatGPT is "too verbal" for those types of queries. • He wants something that is "more terse" and more reliable with its references.

Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks says he uses AI in every meeting he attends.

"I read a lot of medical journals. I go to conferences where data is presented," Ricks told Stripe cofounder John Collison during a recent episode of Collison's "Cheeky Pint" podcast. "I spend time with our scientists to stay curious. Yeah, now I have at least one or two AIs running every minute of every meeting I'm in, and I just am asking science questions."

Ricks said he doesn't like OpenAI's ChatGPT for science-related questions — "It's too verbal," he said. Instead, he pre

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