Wet lab

Then you have them publishing an essay about the bio risk associated with AI and how that needs to be stopped.

And then meanwhile, they announced a new bio lab in San Francisco, a new wet lab.

They started a lab after telling us that there's a 10% chance of us all dying sacks.

Let's just pause here for a second.

But on the other hand, it requires a tremendous degree of trust in those founders because they effectively can't be removed no matter what they do.

And you just have to wonder if in this case that's earned and warranted.

I have to say that even for someone like me who isn't necessarily advocating for a lot more regulation, I kind of get nervous about the idea of Anthropic opening a wet lab in san francisco i mean great

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I'm totally fine with it.

Where Anthropic now have a wet lab.

They're doing tests on like real stuff, right? They're sort of bridging that gap between data center and reality.

And they found a new sort of sequence within DNA, which is a bit like CRISPR, which allows you to change stuff and whatever.

There we go.

In other news this week, it's been announced, and this one I do have mixed feelings on.

It's been announced that Anthropica set up what they call a wet lab.

So a wet lab for those who aren't as scientific.

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Anthropic has a wet lab and a potential gene editing technique.

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Anthropic has a wet lab and a potential gene editing technique.

Anthropic's new wet lab in San Francisco to develop new drugs for anyone asking how the AI could possibly get access to a wet lab.

There's a bunch of drama, of course, with Anthropic and Dario saying we need to pace the frontier.

And at the same time, they were saying they were opening a wet lab in San Francisco.

after 21 hours of the wet lab being open, it has already made its first discovery.

And Dario has been talking about it, which has led to a lot of excitement, but also backlash from people concerned that Anthropic is going to slow down the development of a lot of great scientific things.

There's people worried that they're going to you know, create the next COVID.

They're like, look, we found something new that no one really knew about.

We don't know if this is important, if it means anything.

This came after, I think, 21 hours of their wet lab being online.

Yep.

We followed those same agents out into the physical world of driverless trucks, wet labs, and supply chain logistics.

And finally, we looked at the builders relying on shared open source knowledge to keep the whole machine running.

It is a massive paradigm shift to process, but understanding this exact landscape is crucial for navigating what comes next.

Anthropic publishes a chart of how much of its own model research is being done by its own model and says out loud why that number matters.

The company that keeps telling you we are all going to die quietly buys a wet lab.

Twelve millennium problems get written for biology.

And the President of the United States runs a poll on what to rename superintelligence.

So this is from Alex Wisnergro says, the innermost loop, we're gonna go through a bunch of tweets of Donald Trump.

We're gonna cover what Jürgen Schmidhuber had to say about Trump's renaming of Singularity.

And well, accidentally Anthropic is buying a wet lab while they're also saying that it's really fucking dangerous.

You know how some people try to slow down AI and so those have the plan A or the plan S for stopping AI development? We have plan M and that's basically full acceleration where we are co-scaling defensively capabilities and safety.

Good point.

So when we say wet lab, we mean a physical laboratory handling actual liquids, chemicals, biological samples.

Right.

As opposed to a dry lab, which is entirely computational.

You can just hit undo, but you can't just hit delete on a chemical spill.

No, you cannot.

If these agentic AI systems act this tenaciously and unpredictably in a digital sandbox, we have to look at what happens when we hand them the keys to a fully stocked physical wet lab.

Because in the digital world, an unpredictable optimization usually means a crashed server or a deleted log file.