Jumper announced in June that he was leaving DeepMind to join Anthropic.
Key people were leaving.
Other former staff members were reassigned to Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs, which is a DeepMind spin-off.
It’s not as bad as the headline makes it sound.
In 2011 Google surreptitiously edited, “don’t be evil”, from its mission statement. Voila!
As Macron would say, “who would have guessed capitalism is evil?”
so letting a person own their own company is evil? we just hand it to the government?
this is about greed not capitalism… which is private ownership. our government is just as greedy
Yes, letting a person own a means of production leads to greed and they, unlike government, are not able to be voted out. They just grow more powerful and stupid drunk on wealth and they do stupid shit that destroys economies and environments and societies and surround themselves with yes men so they never have to hear about the consequences of their actions from anyone “important”.
Elon musk should not own the space program. Jeff Bezos should not own all retail. Palmer Luckey should be “disrupting” defense.
You are not a capitalist, you are a worker with Stockholm syndrome. Fuck capitalism, it’s time for it to go. It’s antiquated and unnecessary.
As Trump would say, “who knew healthcare could be so hard?”, at least french people know how to protest…
The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.
Honestly they could’ve pointed AI at this problem to try and rack up at least some positive AI press coverage
But… Alpha fold is AI.
Actual, real, machine-learning artificial-intelligence. Not this sycophantic human mimic shit everybody’s fallen head over heels for. At the very bare-minimum comparison, AlphaFold had an established use-case.
But you need to understand, preventing deaths doesn’t make Google any money. Please think about the poor corporation!
I think this is a miscalculation on Google’s part because dead people can’t buy their products.
People don’t buy products anymore. They’re too poor to care about. Businesses sell to governments and other businesses now and couldn’t care less what you want or think.
Idiocracy
Holy shit, that is so fucking stupid. This has so much potential. This is such an anti-human pattern.
How are there like 3 positive comments on this article? Is Engaget primarily for dummies?
Good to know. I’ll continue not really going here lol
Google. The graveyard of projects.
They are killing Google earth desktop application.
I installed Google Earth on every machine (thanks ninite) since it came out and think I only opened it a few times during the first year to show it to people lol
Pls tell me this won’t affect google earth VR on steam. It’s amazing!
We pursue AI for the good of humanity my ass
Sorry it didn’t fit with the narrative of genocidal maniacs.
The usefulness of alphafold had been grossly overstated by science media. The structures it generates are mostly nonsense, they typically can’t generate molecular dynamics simulation trajectories with the correct physical properties, which makes them not useful for drug discovery. in computational biology today you’ll most often find them in use as a starting point for structure refinement or as one of many sources of data for some integrative method. Again, not useless, and an improvement over previous structure prediction algorithms, but they didn’t ‘solve protein folding’ or anything, like Google might have you believe. I don’t put much stock in Nobel prizes, I mean, they gave one to Henry Kissinger.
Google also released alphafold 3 under a strict non commercial license, which severely limited its usefulness for both commercial and academic work, the latter of which all but requires using more permissive licenses. I assume Google wanted to monetize a commercial version of it at some point.
I’ve been using Openfold 3 in some work I’ve been doing recently, and while the software is a bit undercooked, it does produce structures similar to alphafold 3 without any of Google’s bullshit. So I wouldn’t worry too much about this announcement. The protein folding will continue with or without them
Though it does suck that attention is being diverted to LLM development because it’s so good at giving the illusion of being smart while still getting so much wrong.
they seriously out here shutting down the one universally accepted good this shitshow has brought us?
ffs man
really making it hard for the common person to not fucking hate their guts, between shit like this, data center pollution and the growing mental health crisis of people with cyberpsychosis getting talked into suicide by the llm
edit: shit i got jebaited by the title i think… the project is still available as is but the scientists have been moved to other projects yes?
They basically shifted all the research that they were doing through alpha fold to Isomorphic Labs.
Sounds like they just moved the research over to isomorphic labs, also even from the onset people quickly took the original approach and paper and made their own versions tuned for their needs.
Feels more like a research project having achieved its goals, the key players moved on, and they’re closing the Deepmind part of it as it’s not really useful anymore.
delusional dimwits dreaming dollar signs
Did not realise the point google dropt the act of pretending to be good and went full evil mode.
Remember actually liking the little jokes they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
Unfortunately, they’ve been full-on evil for at least a decade.
