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Nobel Prize awarded to ‘godfather of AI’ who warned it could wipe out humanity (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

i'm here to remind you that for last 20ish years half of the time chemistry nobel goes to biologists, and now they doubled down on ai wankery with giving it to alphafold

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    To be fair, AlphaFold is pretty incredible. I remember when it was first revealed (but before they open sourced parts of it) that the scientific community were shocked by how effective it was and assumed that it was going to be technologically way more complex than it ended up being. Systems Biologist Mohammed AlQuraishi captures this quite well in this blog post

    I'm a biochemist who has more interest in the computery side of structural biology than many of my peers, so I often have people asking me stuff like "is AlphaFold actually as impressive as they say, or is it just more overhyped AI nonsense?". My answer is "Yes."

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