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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

780 points · 805 comments · raahelb

  1. mullingitover · · focus · HN ↗
    This is great, but I can't help but wonder if we're going to have another post next week with a lab complaining that they were about to publish this same finding, and they had Claude proofread their paper, and whoops how'd that get into Anthropic's training data?
    1. petcat · · focus · HN ↗
      Lots of stuff gets discovered by AI bots that was always hidden in plain sight. They're remarkably good at "connecting the dots".
      1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
        Being an effective pattern matcher and next word predictor is like 60%+ of intelligence, maybe more.

        The people that say "It's just a next word predictor" might as well be saying "Well, it's just a long rage nuclear missile".

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