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Aravind Srinivas on AlphaFold's Generational Impact ===================================================
Aravind Srinivas on AlphaFold's Generational Impact ===================================================  ### Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas
回首过去，AlphaFold 将被视为 AI 领域最伟大的成就之一。它将持续造福后代。
#### vittorio
@IterIntellectus · 3h ago
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get Show More
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One Sentence Summary
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas highlights AlphaFold as one of AI's greatest achievements, citing its role in democratizing life-saving medical research.
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Aravind Srinivas reflects on the long-term significance of AlphaFold, describing it as a monumental AI contribution that will benefit generations. His commentary is a reaction to a viral story where an individual with no biology background used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a successful custom mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog, illustrating the transformative power of AI in the pharmaceutical and genomics sectors and its potential to disrupt traditional drug discovery pipelines.
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