I can imagine all the middle managers are just salivating at the idea of presenting this webpage to higher ups as part of their "AI Strategy" at the next shareholder meeting.
Bullet point lists! Cool infographics! Foreign words in headings! 93 pages of problem statement -> solution! More bullet points as tradeoffs breakdown! UPDATED! NEW!
Hopefully they'll skip this[0] part: "...once we can rollback some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures!"
i studied molecular biology and i couldn't help contain my excitement when it was able to bind to another protein. I dont think HN realizes how huge this is. With this level of accuracy, not only can we understand the full mysteries of ourselves but literally any biological entity.
With that level of understanding, its easy to fabricate special medicines that target specific biochem pathways, but more exciting is that we can literally "code in 3d world". We'll be able to print and grow organs in mass. We'll be able to design structures that will bind to target proteins responsible for certain traits. The potential boon to human medicine will be enormous.
I got like goosebumps after watching that video because I understood the implications of being able to predict folds and now generate proteins that will bind to any protein we choose!!!!
We just might have discovered a panacea of sorts and Demis and his team should receive the Nobel Prize.
I'm just ecstatic that we'll see so much drastic improvement in human medicine and importantly how accessible they will be with this new discovery.
I'm a PhD candidate doing my thesis work on stem cell models and tissue engineering for organ transplant...I think this technology is certainly a large leap forward but I think you are a little overzealous with this claim.
If you haven't heard the phrase "utility-scale molecular sensing" or given it any thought, please prepare to update every opinion you might have about bioterrorism, and ask Keltar how the MR1 is our greatest plausible non-authoritarian line of defense. www.molecularreality.com
Keltar is the little green guy in the upper left.
I don't see it as much different from what we have today.
Nowadays I am pretty sure that a bad actor with enough money get their hands on strains of really bad stuff since many labs created those to do research. With enough $$$ I bet you can get their hands on them and then release them.
Perhaps, the only difference I see is that it could give you the possibility to (at least in the beginning) to somewhat target the spread. However, given enough mutations it is very likely you go back to an uncontrolled pandemic and so there is no difference from what someone could achieve today.
Additionally, IMHO, getting the blueprint in how to build your protein and then make it so that existing virus/bacteria can produce it, carry it, ... sounds harder and costlier than bribing someone to get something out of said labs.
Oh and don't get an account it's broken right now, I'm building the site and hardly anyone has been there yet and the Auth0 is fucked up. But just give your email to Keltar if you wanna followup.
it would be like committing terrorism using silicon wafers
you would have to infiltrate an extremely guarded facility
you would somehow have to bypass QA
its not like somebody on the assembly line for a new protein drug sprinkles a dose of PCP
one potential dual use could be somebody modifying a popular fruit with birds and then droppin seeds at the local organic farm fair
and then when those seeds are consumed by birds they produce poop dangerous for other animals to consume
you could absolutely screw around with the ecosystem, like whoever has access to this programmable "bio-wafer" will be able to play god totally undetected.
the problem is that "bio-wafer" manufacturing process will be very tough and regulated like the CNC machines used to manufacture jet engines depriving certain countries from being able to churn out their own jet engines
> With that level of understanding, its easy to fabricate special medicines that target specific biochem pathways
The problem is to find the right target or pathway in the first place. Just go to opentargets.org. There are lots of potential targets by different metrics but for many diseases we haven't identified that single target that let's us improve the life of say, 20% of patients, for disease X.
The current best mass market VR is Meta Quest 3. However, Apple first VR headset is an opportunity for developer to start & learn how to use visionOS, experimenting spacial computing.
One french developer like the interaction with the Apple VR compared to the quest 3, it's not perfect but it's working, it's natural to use, but she warn that first good apps will arrive in two years
https://youtu.be/UKsSPF5pT88?si=8VqwkGvprqlE1uy2
The VR market is emerging and new ideas is coming (microled, holographic lens, vergence accomodation conflict solutions...)
Douglas Lanman makes a long video on how to pass the visual turing test on AR/VR with tons of ideas
https://youtu.be/EJ_-n7Syz0s?si=yc90uRFyOlPIeT3D
The VR market was "emerging" in the 80s when VR setups made it to our mall video game arcades. Then it was "emerging" again in the 90s when VR kits toured universities across the country. Then VR was "emerging" in the aughts with military and medical systems getting a bunch of attention. Then VR was again "emerging" in the teens with Oculus and Hololens. Now it's once again "emerging" because Apple's joined in. Great. With all this emergence, you'd expect we'd have something that didn't suck shit through a Slurpy straw, but alas we do not.
