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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Update on the state of AI drug discovery companies: AI Does Not Make It Easy by Derek Lowe

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lmao incredible

Then there's BenevolentAI. I first wrote about them in 2018, as the company stated that it had "created a bioscience machine brain, purpose-built to discover new medicines and cures for disease." How's the machine brain doing these days? Well, the company's lead program failed in the clinic last year, and in April announced major layoffs.

just who buys this shit? this reads like refined crypto nonsense

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People who don't get much tech/overdose on hype and heard of alphafold. Imagine how much worse things could be now after the Nobel.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i mean how many these people are out there that also have money of this kind, other than softbank i mean

Given the past several decades of trickle-up economics, I think we haven't seen anything close to the bottom of the well of basically-idle capital seeking unrealistic returns.

I'd go so far as to say that the current crop of bubbles possibly represents the greatest downards wealth transfer (albeit from billionaires to millionaires rather than, y'know, working people) since the second world war, but I haven't done anything near the amount of research necessary for that to be more than exciting rhetoric.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

too fucking many