• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.

    • Archer@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Honestly they could’ve pointed AI at this problem to try and rack up at least some positive AI press coverage

        • sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          Actual, real, machine-learning artificial-intelligence. Not this sycophantic human mimic shit everybody’s fallen head over heels for. At the very bare-minimum comparison, AlphaFold had an established use-case.