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Their methods don't sound particularly groundbreaking, the achievement seems to be in the implementation. I hope people don't jump to the conclusion that AI can
by Invictus0 8y ago
Their methods don't sound particularly groundbreaking, the achievement seems to be in the implementation. I hope people don't jump to the conclusion that AI can do science because there isn't actually any experimentation here, just a statistical analysis of a few key amino acid properties.
I hope that they will be able to abstract some formulas or rules about protein folding from the mess of statistics. I imagine that having a rulebook would be much more efficient than using AI, because protein folding isn't so much a game of chance as it is an extremely convoluted puzzle.
- brootstrap 8y agoThis is my major gripe as well. Brute forcing isnt science. It's data analysis and machine learning. Not science. I dont know if i will ever trust an AI to do 'science' for me to be quite honest. This just seems like a marketing ploy to get more venture funding. Hey now we are't just playing games, we are doing real science. Please donate 5 billion dollars so we can keep running up our AWS bill. These science models wont train themselves!!?!
- natechols 8y agoThe rulebook approach is basically what groups like David Baker's have been doing for years. However actually applying the rulebook is a difficult problem; I expect AI would actually prove much more efficient in the end, especially with optimized hardware.