Google discontinued development of alphafold

No they did not, it's on version 3 and they just added >50 PTMs to modelling this month. Another version is being developed and sold to pharma on subscription on a large scale batch modelling platform.

broke up the team

The team continued on to other projects, including the commercial version mentioned above. There was no point in continuing when the development was just adding more features.

the tool that got people a Nobel Prize

2 people from Deepmind, Jumper and Hassabis, one person at U Wash , Baker, is still developing AlphaFold with Google and is a academic lab.

You put a lot of faith on one vague article.

Now we see the tech being used for the whimsical and capricious, but also the potentially destructive, like that hacking incident.

ChatGPT, cure cancer for me.

No, that didn't work, try again

That one gave me a rash, try again.

That last one did not work, also the rash is starting to look a little gross.

Sorry for the delay, I had to go to the ER to get my arm amputated from the rash, can you try again, also look for a cure for amputated arm.

Hyper scalers have so little for their models and compute to do they are just brute force hacking things or mining crypto.

But they are?

https://www.genengnews.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/protein-language-model-hits-undruggable-targets-no-structure-required/

Uses LM to define new peptides to bind targets.

This is their go to motte-and-Bailey argument fallacy. Say something outlandish, get called out on it, retreat behind something more reasonable and how no one notices before sallying forth with unreasonable claims again.

Yeah machine learning for medical research has been around for a lot longer than LLMs. LLMs do not do medical research, they are just really expensive and fancy "next word" auto-correct generators.

I feel like anything involving electricity will be called AI fairly soon.

I cant believe how many people give strong opinions on generative ai when they cant even distinguish it from the much more general term machine learning

The scientist's desk design changes in all four panels as well.

One thing I have to ask is why the AI insists on having slogans and lists on every object in its "illustrations." You can see this everywhere. Hell, I went to a close friend's funeral and they had AI generated memorial stickers. Even there, there are signs filling the negative space saying shit like "dedication, service, a safer community." Is this an AI proclivity or do normal people just like that crap?

It's hilarious what it does with a room full of table and chairs like a classroom. Cannot figure the legs, what a chair looks like, how people sit at desks, none of it.

Still with the missing fingers too

I think that that motivational trashcan really ties the room together

wholeass desk vanished too

Exactly, for every cancer cure AI generates, it generates an incomprehensible ammount of shit, not just slop, but actively harmful content, like revisionist history, lies about science, oceans of exploitative media, terabytes of hallucinations, novells worth of psycological manipulative chats with vulnerable individuals, and more.

All of that while producing pollution that will increase the risk of cancer in the first place, completing the circle.

Dude, AI, specifically ChatGPT, couldn't do a regex against an IP address.

In the time I spent trying to prompt, and I even set a timer, I did it myself.

The shit that I see our "programmers" put out: half of the JS is beautified, while there is another block not. The shit is scraped and slapped together.

But I am told to embrace AI. Man, I just want to go back to coding as a bit-twiddler.

++i

Also AI is a general term and the models used in cancer research/detection are farther from generative LLMs than autocorrect.

As demonstrated by AlphaFold, which is neither an LLM nor generative AI. Coincidentally, I've never heard any actual complaints about what AlphaFold does for research, and the complaints seem to focus on LLMs and generative AI instead. Go figure.

It's going to come from scientists who know how to use ML to supplement their work. Also I don't think we are finding cure for cancer as a drug. Only cure I think may work 100% we master fully controllable nanotech that can also read DNA non invasively.

Ai techniques (more on the ml side or just the math behind it) are starting to be applied to image and genome analysis to determine the boundaries from different types of cells based on gene expression. This is useful for identifying cancer where the gene expression is similar in many genes but the amount/ratio of expression might be different, and for identifying the location and size is the tumor

Problem is that some of the research is coming out of Israel which doesnt exactly have the best human rights of ethics track record, and i have no doubt the data for testing was gathered through human experimentation

Of course they'll come from ai, but that's more a linguistic thing. We have a tendency to call new computational technologies ai. But yeah, neural networks are being used in medical research and will likely bear fruit.

Well, as I explained in a post above, AI (so, not LLMs or other generative shit) is pretty limited in what it can research and as of right now can't do anything for which there isn't a single concrete research direction with some kind of algorithmic validator for the solutions or where results can't be reached in a couple of days.

Further, there is no evidence that it ever WILL - maybe it will, maybe it won't: it's at best a possibility with an unquantified probability of happening.

Because perspectives get misaligned and there's no continuation.

There's a whole desk with books that just disappears. The poster in the background can't decide what it wants to say. Nor can it decide on its size. The shelves in front of it can't decide what they contain or where they are positioned And the wall it's on can't decide how it's angled relative to the room.

The "NO AI" dude is taking a giant step forward with his left foot behind a garbage bin for some reason.

In the third panel the doctor is missing a ring-finger while his thumbs have grown 3-4cm

Just to name a few.

The "uncanny" part I think isn't because it's done badly, it's because it's done well - but not in any of the ways you'd get from a human. By the time a human artist has learned to get that good at shading, colouring, line work, human figures, posing etc, they'll have also learned about composition and perspective and good storytelling and when to not pointlessly overload the background with weird shit.

fruit romance videos do not cancel out surveillance, inequality, and destruction of nature

What?? Of course they do, I saw it in an AI-generated video!

It would kill the cancer.

Napalm could be a cure for AI though.

The company I work for is still going strong, and I feel we'll have a very tangible cure soon. The only problem I think there is a very small chance any insurance company would let the poors get their hands on it

This does make it easier to spot. Pity for the original artists whose work was stolen, though.

Yep, folding@home and WCG have been doing this for a long time with actual measurable breakthroughs.

You're so right, HIV infected plasma wasn't the cure for cancer. Maybe we should step back and look at this from a new perspective. I will generate a new vaccine for you and find a new batch of test subjects.

I didn't realize that it's an AI generated cartoon... Then I started looking at the frames a little more closely, and the more you look the worse it gets 🫣