In 2017, recent off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a secret undertaking to foretell the buildings of proteins. He utilized for a job.
Simply three years later, Jumper and CEO Demis Hassabis had led the event of an AI system referred to as AlphaFold 2 that was capable of predict the buildings of proteins to throughout the width of an atom, matching lab-level accuracy, and doing it many occasions quicker—returning leads to hours as an alternative of months.
Final yr, Jumper and Hassabis shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Now that the hype has died down, what influence has AlphaFold actually had? How are scientists utilizing it? And what’s subsequent? I talked to Jumper (in addition to a couple of different scientists) to search out out. Learn the complete story.
—Will Douglas Heaven
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the way forward for our privateness
—Eileen Guo & Melissa Heikkilä
Even in the event you don’t have an AI good friend your self, you most likely know somebody who does. A latest examine discovered that one of many prime makes use of of generative AI is companionship: On platforms like Character.AI, Replika, or Meta AI, individuals can create customized chatbots to pose as the best good friend, romantic companion, dad or mum, therapist, or some other persona they will dream up.
Some state governments are taking discover and beginning to regulate companion AI. However tellingly, one space the legal guidelines fail to deal with is consumer privateness. Learn the complete story.
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