This is indeed a historic moment for AI - protein folding is unbelievably complex and to now have a tool that can deal with that complexity is of inestimable value. But I do have these concerns:
- It will be tempting to assume that DeepMind is correct on any given structure. But we don't have any easy way to test it. Of course, we can have a high degree of confidence that the predicted shape is accurate, and the value in that is already huge. But mistakes will be made based on this assumption. - This tool can be weaponized to create new and even highly-targeted poisons. It's not hard to imagine developing a poison that was only toxic for people of a certain race and then delivering it via virus. Who has access to DeepMind? - Are we comfortable with a corporation controlling something so powerful and with potential global security issues? This question will only get increasingly more relevant as new advances in AI are made. Can the world ever hope to regulate something so simultaneously powerful and cutting edge? Terren On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 8:56 AM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my opinion this is the most impressive thing that Artificial Intelligence > has done to date: > > From The New York Times: > > A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come > > DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one > made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design. > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/technology/deepmind-ai-proteins-folding.html?smid=em-share > > John K Clark > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2v2BPqSbKyDSRiRCYAs9jAVRMtEAA5EfscX8nukJzkEw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2v2BPqSbKyDSRiRCYAs9jAVRMtEAA5EfscX8nukJzkEw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA9dE9dRujPyEXjsyf3NaKHFJaSDvCvJ4q5iAWsAnUfcdQ%40mail.gmail.com.
