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“Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams
by BenFranklin100 1mo ago
“Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the world will be able to make much more rapid advances across countless fields of science.”
The key point is these jackasses explicitly state, “ a handful of people” can replace “massive teams of scientists and engineers”.
These guys don’t even understand the nature of the challenge and neither do you apparently. If they did, they would realize that it indeed does require “massive teams of engineers and scientists” to solve our most pressing problems.
- nl 1mo ago> don’t even understand the nature of the challenge Oriol Vinyals was a co-author of AlphaFold.
- BenFranklin100 1mo agoAgain Nick, you don’t understand the nature of the problem. In the vast sea of biology, protein folding is well circumscribed problem. Klaus Schulten’s group and dozens of other groups were already making good progress since the nineties chipping away at this problem. Once you move up to protein-protein interactions in living cells, post transcriptional modification, epigenetics, lipidomics, glycomics, and the the arrangement of said cells into the 3D tissue environment, and then into organs and complex biological organisms, all of which have a paucity of good training compared to what we possess in the protein folding domain, the problem becomes computationally intractable. We need to get in the lab. You tech bros are entirely ignorant of these challenges and are making fools of yourselves.