it’s useless hype, “ai could do x one day” is speculation at best
Comment on AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lol… people downvoting stanford university
Lemmy is a wild place… left wing maga, i guess
rapchee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
DeepMind’s AlphaFold solved the decades-old protein folding problem, and its results are already being used in drug and vaccine development.
rapchee@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
is this what the article talks about?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 36 minutes ago
CRISPR is the tool that lets us precisely edit genes in DNA, which contain the instructions for making proteins. AlphaFold is the AI tool that helped us understand what those edits actually do. It’s the 3D shape of the protein that determines its function - without understanding protein folding, gene editing would be like changing code in a language you don’t fully understand and just hoping it works.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It says AI in the title. That’s all information they need. Most people on social media don’t think - they react.
echodot@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
No I doesn’t.
The problem is the term AI has become so broadly used that it’s become meaningless. Does a popular quote about how the quota doesn’t want AI to replace artistic jobs, as if it will. As if generative AI and large language models and projects like this are the same.
When the bubble bursts, (please let it be soon) we’re still going to have all of the science AIs because those are actually useful. What we don’t need is AI girlfriends.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
That’s because “AI” is an extremely broad term. That’s like saying the term “plants” has lost its meaning because it’s so broadly used.
echodot@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
Yes I know the title has the word AI powered in it. I never claimed otherwise.