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 mission 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 throughout the width of an atom, matching lab-level accuracy, and doing it many instances quicker—returning leads to hours as a substitute of months.
Final 12 months, Jumper and Hassabis shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Now that the hype has died down, what affect has AlphaFold actually had? How are scientists utilizing it? And what’s subsequent? I talked to Jumper (in addition to just a few different scientists) to seek 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 buddy your self, you in all probability know somebody who does. A current examine discovered that one of many high makes use of of generative AI is companionship: On platforms like Character.AI, Replika, or Meta AI, individuals can create personalised chatbots to pose as the best buddy, romantic companion, dad or mum, therapist, or some other persona they’ll 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 consumer privateness. Learn the complete story.
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