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But how is this a “landmark moment”?

We’ve had computer aided drug design for the past 4 decades.

Nothing wrong with sharing the research. But calling an AI generated set of antibodies a “landmark moment” when they don’t do what we want antibodies to do is a bit… inappropriate?

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Landmark moment because it's the first time? Don't you think that's an accomplishment in itself? Just like the first flight, or the first satellite, none of those were particular impressive.

I’m assuming you have no background in antibodies, but this is like saying “this is the first time AI put together a sentence but it doesn’t mean anything”.

The purpose of antibody development is to develop something that binds well. That’s the goal. So basically AI designed something useless.

It was also pretty useless to shoot a dog into space by your standard.

all endeavor of sending dogs/monkeys/humans into space looks like brought very little benefits so far

If you want to use your analogy it would be like sending a dog into space and having the rocket explode.

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