Very cool! However, the amazing absence of results makes me question whether they've got a Nature letter forthcoming or whether they know that another AI lab has a similar finding...
iamronaldo•20m ago
Oh good let's give the ai a wetlab im sure nothing bad will come of this
jrflo•17m ago
From the article:
> All of the lab work is performed by human scientists.
eleventen•16m ago
That doesn't mean the humans aren't meat puppets.
unglaublich•7m ago
Are we anything else? Our complete behavior is shaped by our upbringing, media exposure, education. "Do we even have free will?"
Not that I agree with the comment you're replying to - but I find this response funny, when just today there was a link on the front page about the US military bombing a school because of AI output
phoghed•10m ago
That you clearly only read the headline of
bpodgursky•6m ago
Biosafety is a very real concern but "lab" is a big bucket, a molecular genetics lab can't synthesize new viruses out of thin air if it's not a virology lab. Sequencers sequence etc. The lab has the equipment it has.
eqmvii•16m ago
In a year or two, articles like this will either be artifacts from peak hype or evidence of the beginning of the singularity. Right?
BobbyJo•13m ago
Yes. I would bet on the latter.
dude250711•12m ago
That's black and white thinking; it will be a midgularity - so neither.
kikokikokiko•7m ago
Mehgularity
pizza234•11m ago
The singularity, as defined by Hinton (and others) as RSI (Recursive Self Improvement) may actually be beginning already, as OpenAI has announced an AI acting as a "research intern" (!).
mullingitover•15m ago
This is great, but I can't help but wonder if we're going to have another post next week with a lab complaining that they were about to publish this same finding, and they had Claude proofread their paper, and whoops how'd that get into Anthropic's training data?
petcat•4m ago
Lots of stuff gets discovered by AI bots that was always hidden in plain sight. They're remarkably good at "connecting the dots".
caaqil•4m ago
I am going to assume that life science researchers are less egotistic and less prone to anti-tech hysteria (i.e., more exposed/accustomed to the benefits of tech) unlike mathematicians who thought pen and paper was all they needed because their incredible 2-3 SD IQs was all the processing they needed and any evidence of a stochastic parrot pattern-matching aggressively faster than they could was simply cheating.
bonsai_spool•22m ago