Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery.

kept by eddie sep 25

Anthropic's AI discovered a group of enzymes with unknown function, marking its first original biological finding.

The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
Vaccine development has progressed from serendipitous discoveries to a systematic, atomic-precision science, enabling the design of new vaccines in weeks rather than centuries.
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The Universe just wants to learn - by Shyam Sreevalsan
Drawing parallels between DNA and neural network weights, the piece argues both are lossy compressions of search processes, sharing properties of opacity and convergent representation.
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