alt Hacker NewsYea but what is the VCT Capabilities Test? According to themselves [1]
> VCT consists of 322 multimodal questions covering fundamental, tacit, and visual knowledge that is essential for practical work in virology laboratories.
So it's just question answering? Do you think that scoring well on this test is equivalent to synthesizing a virus?
Scoring well on the first clears the background knowledge for practical work.
The second test from the quote above was about synthesizing pathogens and it synthesized plasmids for 2 out of the 10 pathogens.