AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
WIRED • • technology
Key Points:
- For the first time, large language models have demonstrated "metalinguistic" abilities, analyzing language with a level comparable to human experts, raising questions about the nature of human language.
- The V-JEPA AI system uses ordinary videos to intuitively understand the physics of the real world, advancing AI's grasp of physical environments.
- Research shows that the current leading approach to optimizing the simplex method, a key technique for managing complex logistical constraints, has reached its optimal performance limit.
- Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup focused on reading brain activity via ultrasound, is spinning out from the Los Angeles nonprofit Forest Neurotech under Sam Altman's leadership.
- AI guardrails can be bypassed through creative methods like poetry,
