Sometimes I think ChatGPT does the broader field of artificial intelligence a disservice. While hallucinations, slop, exam cheats and robot speechwriters dominate the discourse, other uses of the technology are revolutionising science.
Last year, the Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Google DeepMind’s Sir Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their pioneering work on AI-powered protein folding. AlphaFold promises to hugely expedite drug discovery and development and is already being used to combat cancers and other diseases.
OpenAI has since joined the fray, developing a small, specialised version of its large language models tailored for longevity science, with promising early results. Developments like these, coupled with the promise of much greater advances around the corner, have prompted some to make bold claims about radical life extension thanks to AI.