alt Hacker NewsI was reading the post and thinking "wow, that's pretty clear for a smart man used to writing for other smart men. it'll be really difficult to misunderstand". I read the first couple of comments and stand corrected.
A much simpler summary:
- open models good.
- smart models _can_ be bad
- smart open models that can do biotech work are dangerous. worth the hassle of certification _if_ we can get everybody on board with minimalist certification.
- banning open models just in US is neither good or bad: is stupid.
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npodbielski • today at 1:33 PM
Yeah makes everyone agree on banning Chinese models and then force them to use mine models. How I could misunderstand *that*.
The biotech work is not even these LLM models.
Alphafold and others solving the protein folding problem are revolutionary.
An LLM can max provide an instructive tutorial protocol for lab work, but designing novel proteins is not it's job.
I am interested to enter the bioinformatics space eventually and the regulation happens at the DNA printer level. Anyone can design yeast nowadays that excretes heroin, but the DNA needed for the genetic modification won't be printed by anyone. As long as DNA printing tech is extremely regulated it's all fine, if home printing becomes a thing then on the other hand maybe people won't even need AI to print deadly pathogens at all. A database lookup will do.