AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This seems irresponsible.

  There was an old game from the PlayStation days called Xenogears. There was a population of mutants and monsters in it than came about from fucking with DNA irresponsibly. I’m reminded of that obnoxious rat-man from the Kislev prison.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … or to funny looking specimen. Radioactivity no longer required.

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• Muffi@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a shame that we have created a world where this will only benefit a wealthy minority.

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• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol… people downvoting stanford university

  Lemmy is a wild place… left wing maga, i guess

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  • rapchee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s useless hype, “ai could do x one day” is speculation at best

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    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DeepMind’s AlphaFold solved the decades-old protein folding problem, and its results are already being used in drug and vaccine development.

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It says AI in the title. That’s all information they need. Most people on social media don’t think - they react.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am asking that all the people doing this watch Jurassic Park at least once.

  I’ll let experts do their thing, but this kind of thing worries me. I never had “there is no singularity, AI just engineers a generic disease by accident and kills is all” on my bingo.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course the actual moral of Jurassic Park is have a well staffed IT team and not just one random guy who you under pay.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh. Read the book first.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.

    What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don’t just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!

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    • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Back in the day, I used to fold proteins at home.

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Machine learning sure but an llm? For anything other then as a module to translate abstract data into words that just seem weird

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well I’m sure you know more than the scientists at Stanford university.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am not saying i understand it at all. My comment is genuine, not rhetorical.

      On the contrary i express that i do not understand this to the point of deeming it strange or weird, triggering my curiosity.

      I was hoping someone would chime in an explain how text generator techniques (which i do know alot about) known to have no capacity to use real world reason or logic can be used to help solve dna puzzles unless as a sub module of general machine learning. In which that later case would be within my understanding

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• Horta@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Hey…Crisper.GP…T…think…you’ve mixed up the genes for my ass and…elbows…”

  “Oh, you’re totally alright! I apologise about that. 😀”

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be honest you’re probably better off just making a T-Rex from the start let it eat you and just get it over with.

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  • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Oh, you’re totally alright! I apologise about that. 😀”

    Here your ass on your elbow like you asked

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