“AI #63: Introducing Alpha Fold 3” by Zvi

It was a remarkably quiet announcement. We now have Alpha Fold 3, it does a much improved job predicting all of life's molecules and their interactions. It feels like everyone including me then shrugged and went back to thinking about other things. No cool new toy for most of us to personally play with, no existential risk impact, no big trades to make, ho hum.

But yes, when we look back at this week, I expect what we remember will be Alpha Fold 3.

Unless it turns out that it is Sophon, a Chinese technique to potentially make it harder to fine tune an open model in ways the developer wants to prevent. I do not expect this to get the job done that needs doing, but it is an intriguing proposal.

We also have 95 theses to evaluate in a distinct post, OpenAI sharing the [...]

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Outline:

(01:14) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(05:41) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(10:24) GPT-2 Soon to Tell

(13:49) Fun with Image Generation

(14:03) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(18:05) Automation Illustrated

(23:15) They Took Our Jobs

(25:56) Apple of Technically Not AI

(28:09) Get Involved

(28:46) Introducing

(31:11) In Other AI News

(32:47) Quiet Speculations

(37:35) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(39:51) The Week in Audio

(40:38) Rhetorical Innovation

(45:58) Open Weights Are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(51:34) The Lighter Side

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First published:
May 9th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FrBxFa3qMDvLypDEZ/ai-63-introducing-alpha-fold-3

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.