It’s an author affiliation that would make even the most seasoned scientist do a double take: New research on artificial intelligence-powered protein design, written by researchers at, of all places, Salesforce.
From Meta to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, nearly every tech company has research programs on large language models, the foundational technology behind text-generating AI tools like ChatGPT. And what are proteins, if not run-on sentences, each word another amino acid?
Biology’s complex problems are the perfect playground for AI researchers armed with computing power, a big budget, and a side mission to advance science and humanity. Biology also has something to offer tech companies looking to refine their AI — a training task more deliciously complex than chess.
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