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nixlazon Pocket Bibles and AI

Progress is progress, and it's good to see tech like AI used for good but I don't like the idea of these proprietary models being used in profit making endeavors which is what I assume will happen next.

nixlazon Pocket Bibles and AI

This thought piece came to mind when I read this headline earlier in the week about pharma companies having enough data to outperform AlphaFold: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02882-x

Is it fair that mega-corps can horde data and intelligence? Should everything be decentralised or does that create new (worse) challenges?

nixlazon Check if a file was made with Claude

>Supported formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, TIFF, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, DNG, JXL, MP4, MOV, AVI, WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC · up to 100 MB

I'm wondering why they have restricted file types. You can't check a PDF for example... surely the main use case for people will be to check if a document was produced or edited by an LLM? That could be an attractive (if not misunderstood) proposition for academics

nixlazon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Do you mind me asking why you have no fear of OpenAI etc publishing a biology paper? With increasing model capability and compatibility with lab hardware could we not be in a scenario soon(ish) where these agents are able to autonomously complete and publish experimental results?

I was debating this with a friend the other day and the consensus we came to was that a highly trained scientist would (or should) always review output like that described above, but that's starting to feel like a weakening argument!