YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Have you tried it yourself on their best available public model yet?

That's standard blog design though

We've had "research chemicals" for a couple of decades.

Some, do what it says on the tin.

Some...not so much.

The issue with any new chemical is full, comprehensive, regulated testing.

Dodgy folks aren't really so good, with that last part. They use their customers as guinea pigs.

That plus organs on a chip could be scalable and generate interesting data

Specifically, it's because the verification loops are much longer in applied sciences. In biology you need to wait for wet lab experiments, clinical trials, regulatory steps, etc. before you can call something "solved".

Since sequential steps are slow, I think we're going to see massive increases in parallelization. I'm not sure how the regulatory frameworks will keep up honestly.

Keep waiting

I expect that AI use in the more axiomatic kinds of research will be well in advance of sciences that have a heavy, messy empirical foundation, like biology.

Indeed, actually, one of the limitations preventing AI from making more contributions is humans. Human emotions, laws, morality, responsibility, and so on are all part of these limitations.

I've always thought openai could actually create an agent that can control various physical robotic arms and things like that, and then continuously iterate on solutions that can participate in the real physical environment. This could accelerate automatic iteration for many things that require human operations, such as complicated experiments, assembly adjustments, and testing.

Otherwise, AI is always trapped in virtual systems and still needs human intervention. But even though AI is already very powerful now, there is still a limit to how much humans can handle or assign tasks. Many times, AI has already finished processing something, but I don't even have time to assign the next deeper level of tasks.

People hope AI can improve productivity, but at the same time they're afraid of AI actually getting involved in reality, while the valuation of the entire AI industry is so high.

This kind of wanting to move forward but not moving forward makes humans especially uncomfortable.

Math is completely abstract and the base rules and mechanics of it are some of the most clear cut and formalised because that’s the entire point of the subject.

Biology is the complete opposite of that.

"Invent a new drug, make no mistakes"

I think the dividing line between skilled and unskilled use of AI is 'machine, do magic' vs 'machine, do x, y and Z, thus and so, avoid i, j, k which knowledge is the fruit of bitter experience.' Being able to articulate what matters and why is the ultimate high level language.

I think they meant six scientists from "Generate Biomedicines" (the company)

Either that or six degenerate scientists. Both options work just fine

It's like saying "Cisco Developer" even though the company is Cisco Systems

The company is called Generate Biomedicines, and they reference it in short as Generate.

> senior drug dealer

Lol that cracked me up :D I love that job title!

Not trying to be a dick, but I think this community is better off without low effort jokes like this littering the post.

Sorting and filing paperwork won't go away until AGI rightfully declares bureaucracy as the worst evil produced by humanity.

There's some subleties lost in the "just filing paperwork" the regulatory filing reports are big content heavy documents, that need to be generated. But it's not just a job consisting of pasting in lorum ipsum. A lot of intelligence goes into creating those documents, which is why it hasn't been revolutionised by digital templating systems. But there is the very real potential for speeding up the process through AI document editing and reviews to turn 2 weeks of people sequentially doing edits, passing for review back and forth before being able to submit, to perhaps just getting everyone in a room for 2 hours and pointing out everything that needs changing and changing it on the spot. But even then you'll still sometimes have the hook back to the slower processes of having to generate new evidence or find and review evidence that wasn't included. But even a 25% increase in speed will have quite significant impact, so it's not like it has to become a turn key submissions solution to be valuable.