In 2017, contemporary off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from game-playing AI to a secret challenge to foretell the constructions of proteins. He utilized for a job.
Simply three years later, Jumper and CEO Demis Hassabis had led the event of an AI system known as AlphaFold 2 that was in a position to predict the constructions of proteins to inside the width of an atom, matching lab-level accuracy, and doing it many occasions quicker—returning ends in hours as a substitute of months.
Final yr, Jumper and Hassabis shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Now that the hype has died down, what impression has AlphaFold actually had? How are scientists utilizing it? And what’s subsequent? I talked to Jumper (in addition to a number of different scientists) to seek out out. Learn the total story.
—Will Douglas Heaven
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the way forward for our privateness
—Eileen Guo & Melissa Heikkilä
Even if you happen to don’t have an AI buddy your self, you in all probability know somebody who does. A current research discovered that one of many prime makes use of of generative AI is companionship: On platforms like Character.AI, Replika, or Meta AI, folks can create personalised chatbots to pose as the perfect buddy, romantic associate, mum or dad, therapist, or every 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 handle is person privateness. Learn the total story.
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