alt Hacker NewsNone have had the capability to provide me with instructions that have this high of accuracy including the suggesion of completely novel chemical reactions. I am not a chemist so I can't back it up, but if an AI can solve mathematics it's not unreasonable to say that they can also solve creating new neurotoxins en masse.
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Isn't the biggest problem with creating neurotoxins not poisoning yourself while doing it?
I have a hard time believing that you’re the only person who has figured out Claude’s next generation ability to do computational chemistry and computer aided drug design. The AlphaFold folks must be devastated.
> it's not unreasonable
It in fact is. Do you often go around making claims you are entirely unqualified to make? Or is this something new you’re trying?
> I am not a chemist so I can't back it up, but if an AI can solve mathematics it's not unreasonable to say that they can also solve creating new neurotoxins en masse.
Right now it kinda is.
LLMs can do interesting things in mathematics while also making weird and unnecessary mistakes. With tool use that can improve. Other AI besides LLMs can do better, and have been for a while now, but think about how available LLMs in software development (so, not Claude Mythos) are still at best junior developers, and apply that to non-software roles.
This past February I tried to use Codex to make a physics simulation. Even though it identified open source libraries to use, instead of using them it wrote its own "as a fallback in case you can't install the FOSS libraries"; the simulation software it wrote itself was showing non-physical behaviour, but would I have known that if I hadn't already been interested in the thing I was trying to get it to build me a simulation of? I doubt it.