🗿 Can AI Program Our Future?

GM. I hope no one saw last night’s US presidential debate, although Trump seemed to come out on top and that’s probably good for Crypto?

In other news, AI models predicted 500 million years of human evolution, so we got that going for us, which is nice.

Without Further Ado. ☕ *knuckle cracks* ☕ Let’s get into it.

EvolutionaryScale Simulates 500 Million Years of Human Evolution

Check out the full announcement and intro video to get an understanding. 

Here are some key (mind blowing) stats from models:

• ESM3 has over 1 trillion teraflops of computing power

• ESM3 sampled 2.78 billion natural proteins from various biomes and organisms

• ESM3 generated a new protein 58% different from other known structures — something that takes nature 500M years of evolution.

• ESM3 has 98B parameters

Frequent NoFomo readers know that we have our doubts about AI – but this is really, really fascinating. With technologies like this we may be able to predict and even actually program evolution in health and biosciences. Probably scary in the wrong hands, but extremely beneficial in the right ones. For our supernerd readers, here’s the link to the research paper. 

Something We Don’t Like at All

Peacock will offer personalized Olympics highlights with an AI Version of Al Michaels voice.

For those not familiar, Peacock is the streaming service of NBC Sports in the US. 

So why don’t we like it? It completely waters down the importance and ceremoniousness of his voice. Big game voice is a real thing, and for those who are familiar with him, Al Michaels has it. Reproducing this is a terrible precedent to set for future events. Think of any announcer you love, or associate with a specific event. Having that person accessible to every insignificant moment completely dilutes the bigger moments. 

From a historical perspective it’s even worse. When we are looking back 10 years from now, will there just be no iconic calls? No special moments that we all shared watching the same version of something? Every highlight you will be left wondering if it really happened or was an AI recreation. Sad. 

Here’s Al Michaels saying he’s never eaten a vegetable to lighten the mood (not AI).

@bleacherreport

Al Michaels does not eat vegetables🤯 (Via @CNN) #nfl #nflfootball #football #almichaels #vegetables

What We’re Reading

• Volkswagen's $5 bln investment in Rivian boosts EV maker's shares

• Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’

• Bitcoin ETF issuer VanEck files for Solana ETF in the US

• What is 'AI washing' and why is it a problem?

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