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Right. The headline should really be "The public, playing a molecule-building game, outperforms computer algorithms made by scientists". Which is distinctly les
by gjm11 15y ago
Right. The headline should really be "The public, playing a molecule-building game, outperforms computer algorithms made by scientists". Which is distinctly less interesting, since individual people (never mind whole populations) routinely outperform algorithms; otherwise artificial intelligence would be a solved problem.
- jal278 15y agoIt is still pretty impressive because these are biology novices, and RNA folding is a somewhat complicated biological process. AI does outperform humans on a regular basis, especially in narrow domains (chess, checkers, calculation, now jeopardy)