62 points raahelb 1 hour ago 31 comments
bonsai_spool 28 minutes ago | parent
Very cool! However, the amazing absence of results makes me question whether they've got a Nature letter forthcoming or whether they know that another AI lab has a similar finding...
eqmvii 22 minutes ago | parent
In a year or two, articles like this will either be artifacts from peak hype or evidence of the beginning of the singularity. Right?
mullingitover 21 minutes ago | parent
This is great, but I can't help but wonder if we're going to have another post next week with a lab complaining that they were about to publish this same finding, and they had Claude proofread their paper, and whoops how'd that get into Anthropic's training data?
petcat 10 minutes ago | parent
Lots of stuff gets discovered by AI bots that was always hidden in plain sight. They're remarkably good at "connecting the dots".
caaqil 9 minutes ago | parent
I am going to assume that life science researchers are less egotistic and less prone to anti-tech hysteria (i.e., more exposed/accustomed to the benefits of tech) unlike mathematicians who thought pen and paper was all they needed because their incredible 2-3 SD IQs was all the processing they needed and any evidence of a stochastic parrot pattern-matching aggressively faster than they could was simply cheating.
jjtheblunt 8 minutes ago | parent
the article says the reverse transcriptase had been noticed before, but apparently only Claude commented on the subsequence repeating, to your point.
aakil 15 minutes ago | parent
This shows why biology is so much harder a problem area for LLMs than math, finding RTs is tedious but pretty doable today, they had to scope the problem down a lot from something that would be the equivalent of Navier Stokes in biology. Glad they’re doing it though, even if it’s just marketing.
wild_pointer 7 minutes ago | parent
Hurray! Vibe coded enzymes!
ex1fm3ta 5 minutes ago | parent
LLMs are really good at discovering patterns on huge dataset. Google also had similair breakthrough discoveries they stopped marketing them
MachineMan 5 minutes ago | parent
Don't use it for biology, Dario said, as he turned humans into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.. I reckon that soon, he too will return to dimension X.