Good questions.
On 7/25/2021 10:35 AM, Terren Suydam wrote:
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.
Also, in a cell the folding of a protein is affected by things like
salinity and even by helper molecules.
* 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.
Actually that is pretty hard to imagine. Since race is largely a social
construction, it doesn't really correlate well with cellular
metabolism. We already know of some fungal diseases that tend to attack
dark skinned people, but not with the mortality and specificity you
could use as a poison.
Brent
* 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
<mailto: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
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/technology/deepmind-ai-proteins-folding.html?smid=em-share>
John K Clark
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