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Comment · 1 month ago
Progress is progress, and it's good to see tech like AI used for good but I don't like the idea of these proprietary models being used in profit making endeavors which is what I assume will happen next.
Comment · 1 month ago
This thought piece came to mind when I read this headline earlier in the week about pharma companies having enough data to outperform AlphaFold: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02882-x

Is it fair that mega-corps can horde data and intelligence? Should everything be decentralised or does that create new (worse) challenges?

Comment · 2 months ago
>Supported formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, TIFF, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, DNG, JXL, MP4, MOV, AVI, WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC · up to 100 MB

I'm wondering why they have restricted file types. You can't check a PDF for example... surely the main use case for people will be to check if a document was produced or edited by an LLM? That could be an attractive (if not misunderstood) proposition for academics

Comment · 2 months ago
Do you mind me asking why you have no fear of OpenAI etc publishing a biology paper? With increasing model capability and compatibility with lab hardware could we not be in a scenario soon(ish) where these agents are able to autonomously complete and publish experimental results?

I was debating this with a friend the other day and the consensus we came to was that a highly trained scientist would (or should) always review output like that described above, but that's starting to feel like a weakening argument!

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