Researchers developed an AI capable of copying evolution itself. This doesn’t mean the AI created some sort of evolutionary superior superhuman (yet), but instead, the AI designed sequences of 20 amino acids that make up proteins. When compared to nature’s handiwork, some of the sequences worked just as well as ones generated over millions of years of evolution.

Interestingly, scientists didn’t design an AI from scratch, but rather, repurposed one from an unlikely field: a language model. Researchers used natural language-processing abilities and focused on the “sentences” of biological proteins—essentially a language of amino acids.

“In the same way that words are strung together one-by-one to form text sentences, amino acids are strung together one-by-one to make proteins”

Overall, Salesforce estimates that 73 percent of ProGen’s proteins could function, compared to 59% of natural proteins, and found that the AI was also able to detect evolutionary patterns (though it wasn’t specifically designed to)

TLDR: Singularity is just around the corner.

Can we just make another sub for AI?? AI this and Chat GPT that is 99% of the posts here. Wasn’t there a mod post a few weeks ago pledging to filter out this low effort content??

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Unfortunately that's never going to happen. AI and Chat GPT are the biggest things changing society now, so that means by default it's going to be a major topic for years.

It ain’t talking about chat gpt directly tho so this one’s fine imo

That would be like having a sub about food that can't talk about meat, would be a totally different experience

There are already multiple.

I’m actually okay with it 🤷‍♂️

Simulating evolution has been one of the most basic algorithms in computer programming since the 1960s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm

....this isn't that impressive. Evolution is a blindly shambling optimizer that will leap and bound forward on shear luck. There are problem that Evolution would take longer than the atoms of the universe has to exist that a grad student in comp-sci will solve in an afternoon (the enigma machine for example).

Human evolution is largely divorced from standard evolution because of our tool use. Theoretical there are changes getting made constantly just to keep up with disease but even the imunocompromised can live well past what genes and nature would say on the matter.

You sound like someone from the early 90's complaining about everyone talking about the internet lol AI is going to change every aspect of our live in the next 15 years so of course futurology is gonna have lots of posts about all its progress and accomplishments

Kind of like they're going all Monsters Inc and Terror-forming us all. Seems the plot where Shep merged with the Reapers is indeed Borg-like in similarity.

Isn’t it just compiling information from the internet and serving in a bit more sophisticated way?

If you play a bit with ChatGPT you will notice that it’s a bit generic. Ask for writing a review two different professions. You won’t get very unique results even if you ask for that.

It is more sophisticated text generator. Nothing else. AI term is misleading that creates unnecessary sensation.

I’m sure there are vegan food subs.

how if we did avoid local minimum crab form

From the article it's not simulating evolution at all. They trained it on lots of example protein sequences, and it produced a few new good ones. No EA/GP as far as I can see

I love AI, but i agree, this is for general futurology

AI's are arguably the biggest technological advance right now. If they can't be discussed in a sub dedicated to technological advances then that sub is pointless.

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What does singularity have to do with this?

Dont worry well be seeing plenty of articles pulling water out of the air too.

If I have learned anything during my CS degree it's that random bullshit can produce desired outcomes, if you are astronomically lucky (see start of life on Earth). However, in some situations making intelligent and careful use of random decisions can help guide our search processes to find solutions to difficult and complex problems in a way that is provably, mathematically efficient.

This sub has quality assurance? Half the websites posted here are hardly reputable.

I chuckled at this CS and biology joke, ty for providing me with a small amount of entertainment.

I can't argue with that but still people who touted evolutioni's genius also fail to understand it's blindness and idiocy.

It's like a blind man in an old timey cartoon. Comically wandering obliviously through his environment, evading dangers everywhere he goes in close call after close call. By sheer luck he accidentally fumbles about and saves a baby and puts a gang of criminals in jail.

The whole city cheers for him and gives him all kinds of awards and he's just like:

"Eh-excuse me good sir, I am looking for Johnson's pharmacy, on the corner of 9th street and 6th avenue. Could you offer some guidance please?"

Yeah, ultimately evolution's true achievement is the fact it managed to optimize in the first place. The fact that random chunk of chemicals got together and make more of itself and then make more of other stuff and so on and so forth till the world got covered in thos carbon nanostructreal iterative mesh making directed optimized processes is the cool part. All taking advantage of the fact if there's more of something that can make itself than that something will increase in number.

The probability of life emerging in the universe is quite low, but it's definitely higher than 0.

It's the future, yo.

I know that, rudementry life is largely just a matter of getting the right chemicals in place. But the truely interesting part is that it continues and iterates. Statistical laws and higher mathmatical patterns pushing innert chemicals into rudimentary life is amazing, the complexity that emerged is so incredibly fascinating and the fact an animal born of this motion with a sophisticated enough mind to refine the underlying math purely and susinctly is miraculous.

The real crazy stuff is all around is happening even as i type this and most people go they're whole lives never really thinking about even three fourths the phenomenon they encounter on a daily basis. The true marvel of AI is that it must calculate from the simplest math into the more complicated. A human brain may be good enough to identify "tiger" and "danger" afew precious seconds to keep us alive but a machine has ti run the tiger through math and comes to a more complete picture in milliseconds w4the processing we pack nowadays.

I'm unconvinced that either of you are human.

You sound like someone from right now who can’t manage to speak in complete and separate sentences.