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Comment by BenFranklin100 | Hacker News Reader

From the self-stated bios, this group consists solely of CS guys. No biologist, physicist, linguist, chemist, biophysicist to be found. Based on this observation alone I call nonsense. These is AI bullshittery. These guys aren’t close enough to the problems to understand the challenges.

Source: PhD Computational biophysicist turned experimentalist. I work with genuine scientists across a range of disciplines from neurodegeneration, cancer, to fibrosis. Getting in the lab and generating data is absolutely key, among other things.

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Do you actually think that this group of founders will have trouble finding domain experts wanting to work with them?

“Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today. By automating the loops of discovery, the world will be able to make much more rapid advances across countless fields of science.”

The key point is these jackasses explicitly state, “ a handful of people” can replace “massive teams of scientists and engineers”.

These guys don’t even understand the nature of the challenge and neither do you apparently. If they did, they would realize that it indeed does require “massive teams of engineers and scientists” to solve our most pressing problems.

> don’t even understand the nature of the challenge

Oriol Vinyals was a co-author of AlphaFold.

Again Nick, you don’t understand the nature of the problem. In the vast sea of biology, protein folding is well circumscribed problem. Klaus Schulten’s group and dozens of other groups were already making good progress since the nineties chipping away at this problem.

Once you move up to protein-protein interactions in living cells, post transcriptional modification, epigenetics, lipidomics, glycomics, and the the arrangement of said cells into the 3D tissue environment, and then into organs and complex biological organisms, all of which have a paucity of good training compared to what we possess in the protein folding domain, the problem becomes computationally intractable. We need to get in the lab.

You tech bros are entirely ignorant of these challenges and are making fools of yourselves.

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