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[-] WormFood@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I work in computational biophysics. The field has been slowly chipping away at the structure and function of every protein for decades (it's a solvable problem, it's just going to take a lot of time and energy) and recently a bunch of clueless SF tech bros have bumbled their way into the field and declared that they've solved everything.

[-] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

What do you think about alphafold? It's been years since I've heard about it and am no longer in that space.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, I get the same impression from my brother; he’s active on the science side of the field (recently published in Nature Communications about AI and peptides) and his pet hate is Kurzweil and their ilk.

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