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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Like... In research for vaccines?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ohh you mean like the prize winning Folding project that google just shut down so that they could reassign all the staff to work on Gemini instead?

[–] chunes@lemmy.world -2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The project that reached its goals and is the basis for new projects? Yeah

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lmfao

This bro doesn't understand AI, protein folding, or code at all but speaks as an authority on it all.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 1 points 1 hour ago

https://alphafold.com/

Their model for folding proteins worked, is complete and access is given freely to researchers for use. I'm not sure what you think they should be working on now, are the people who made it supposed to just never move on to new projects?

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Great example. It’s good for that, it must be good universally, so let’s use it for everything. Let’s force people to use it for everything, because it has one legitimate and specific use case scenario.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, let's use infectious diseases for socialising with people.
Cough on the face of the person you want to say hello to... Wait... People already do that.