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Anthropic's Claude flags a new enzyme system; CRISPR scientists split on its significanceAmodei and outside scientists react, split on significance
4 Sep 24 12:26 AM · 2d ago · 10 articles · 15 posts · 21 comments · 5 sources · development 4 of 6
Dario Amodei posted that the system could represent a new gene-editing mechanism and said he is 'rooting for' frontier labs to pursue biology, while Stanford's Stanley Qi called the pattern-recognition 'incredibly exciting' and microbiologist Kevin Blake called the CRISPR comparison overstated.
“I’m genuinely rooting for all of the frontier labs to seriously get into biological discovery, and I’m excited about what comes out of it.”
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEOAnthropic AI company running the biology labFeng Zhang CRISPR pioneer, MIT/Broad Institute professorStanley Qi Stanford bioengineering professorKevin Blake Microbiologist, Washington University School of Medicine
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first by Gizmodo, 2d ago · also Indian Express, Reuters, Channel News Asia, Times of India, Al Jazeera, Hindustan Times
5 more headlines
- Anthropic says Claude AI helped discover novel enzyme system Indian Express · 2d ago
- Anthropic’s Claude finds new CRISPR-like system in viruses Times of India · 2d ago
- AI model Claude discovers CRISPR-like enzyme system, Anthropic says Mastodon · 2d ago
- Anthropic unveils discovery of new enzyme system spotted by Claude model Hindustan Times · 2d ago
- Anthropic’s Claude AI discovers new enzyme system in bacteria-infecting viruses; Dario Amodei says: We believe AI for biology is on a similar... The Times of India · 1d ago
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🔬 The best bytes of # science & # tech across the # fediverse “Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr theverge․com/ai-artificial-intelligence/999470/anthropic-biolab-claude-crispr ⌗AI ⌗Science ⌗Research” https://www. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int elligence/999470/anthropic-biolab-claude-crispr 🤖 via RSS feed. Not an…
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Good AI work? "Still, the revelation that Anthropic has been conducting biology experiments comes right after AI CEOs, including Amodei, publicly admitted that models have become so capable, and so potentially dangerous, that the industry must slow down..." #AI
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I've been using Claude Science a lot and it is VERY good at finding patterns in the DNA around my binding sites - quite often it went 'you could put your primer here but that looks like an Alu repeat, so better not, the primer won't be specific' - it seems like the press release is one step above that pattern recognition? I.e., 'there's a…
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𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑤 𝐷𝑁𝐴 𝑠𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑇, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑑: “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑁𝐴 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑇 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟: 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑦 … 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝐶𝑅𝐼𝑆𝑃𝑅-𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 … 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑦?!” https://www…
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Well, the question is, is it more like iPhone and book of engineers (one of the replies to your comment), or more like Astra and Enigma story from ~last 2 days here?In the latter, there were comments like yours too, but there it turned out the people in question said so directly: they just vaguely pointed a model at Enigma ciphers and asked to…
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An AI model has found a new ‘CRISPR-like’ biological system. Here’s what it means for science Anthropic announced today that its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) system identified a previously unknown biological system in the… # UnitedStates # US # USA # america # science # technology # unitedstatesofamerica
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I'm low-key interested in reading the pre-print. I'll have to take some time this week to read thoroughly. I'm not from the field, so I can't judge the specifics.On the surface, the preprint looks good. I glanced through the Methods and couldn't figure out if Claude wrote the preprint in Claude Science session or authors wrote it.I was curious…
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https://www. europesays.com/us/1081312/ Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big # ai # anthropic # ArtificialIntelligence # Technology # UnitedStates # UnitedStates # US
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Saying that "Claude found" this is very creepy.Not once in the article did they mention the humans involved in this.If you scroll to the bottom, click on the small link in the second last paragraph you'll find a technical report that acknowledges the humans involved:
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Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats - https:// thenextweb.com/news/anthropic- claude-enzyme-system-crispr-like-repeats potentially big
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>While this underlying RT, found in a jumbo phage, had been identified in previous studies, Claude appears to be the first to notice the system’s defining features—an associated array of non-coding DNA sequences and an additional accessory protein of unknown function.So they investigated an already known thing. Not exactly "discovering a new…
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>> Claude appears to be the first to notice the system’s defining features—an associated array of non-coding DNA sequences and an additional accessory protein of unknown functionIn Claude-speak: "You've hit the nail on the head. The DNA does not code, but acts exactly like an associative array. To be honest, the actual protein in question has an…
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this is with out a doubt the saddest excuse for "scientific discovery" i've ever read. even if there is novelty and eventual value from this line of inquiry, the excruciating lack of rigor, methods, or disclosure has francis bacon rolling in his grave.grow up anthropic.
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I'm so tired of articles in the format: "LLM does <important science thing>"It makes it really hard to distinguish scientific progress from marketing. I wish the important part was the discovery and that it was an LLM that made it was only an afterthought.
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I think it’s more accurate to say that Claude funded this research. As of today “agents” can commit crimes without repercussions, fund research and appropriate its results. Who knows what’s next. The opportunities for further revolutionary developments is astounding.
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I feel this is overly pessimistic. Perhaps see it this way then; it is now easy and cheap to throw money at a Thing.Society is bottlenecked by the limited amount of experts it can muster. That is increasingly less the case.
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Exactly the same mechanics was about astra decoding enigma encoded message: it's well-researched subject, with bunch of data and LLM created a breakthrough by identifying previously missed pattern/relation.
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Anthropic: You absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, use Claude for bio-engineering. It could literally end humanity.Also Anthropic: Claude discovers a new way to edit your genome!
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I really don't care about whatever esoteric theoretical math or biological insight this thing has supposedly cracked. Make robots work. That will impress me infinitely more.
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But its just PR so far. They haven't published a refereed science paper, in say Nature or Science. At this stage, its of little value to others until verified.
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Could be huge. CRISPR patents are blocking any innovation. If an enzyme of the same function is found, the industry could profit greatly.
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The product finds the enzyme. Not the model, the harness. Anthropic Biologists agree. Comms like Empire. Good prep for IPO.
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like in that episode of community in which a human signed away his identity to be come the literal face of subway
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Well. If you put the amount of computing power and money they put in to that they would probably brute forced it
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