MIT Technology Review July 26, 2024
Our genetic code works a bit like DALL-E, apparently
What does the genome do? You might have heard that it is a blueprint for an organism. Or that it’s a bit like a recipe. But building an organism is much more complex than constructing a house or baking a cake.
This week I came across an idea for a new way to think about the genome—one that borrows from the field of artificial intelligence. Two researchers are arguing that we should think about it as being more like a generative model, a form of AI that can generate new things.
You might be familiar with such AI tools—they’re the ones that can create text, images, or even films from various...
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