Biosecurity & AI @PerimeterBio. Following rationalists, biotech entrepreneurs, scientists & designers
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Great energy tonight! Got to talk about lab automation, recent advances in bio foundation models and parenting in with some new and familiar faces. Biotech and AI is alive and well in NYC. Hope to make this a recurring meetup at
@fractaltechnyc
The flourishing is K shaped
Zachary Kurtz retweeted
Biosecurity global infra.
Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners.
We're releasing:
- Weights, tokenizer, and reference implementation
- BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights and a DFlash2 drafter
- The open source harness we built and trained Beam on: Mirror CLI
Weights and model card on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/reflection
Lots of interest in biothreat radar lately, I wonder why
Great panel yesterday at FP's Health Forum with Bob Kristovich (DTRA) and Jane Halton (CEPI), moderated by @NPRKelly.
We need for biosecurity what every other domain of defense already has: persistent, proactive technical monitoring, deployed everywhere. That's Biothreat Radar.
Real biosecurity is terraforming Mars
The first microbe for Mars is a safe, useful first step toward terraforming.
Read the announcement from @Pioneer__Labs, including links to three new papers:
blog.pioneer-labs.org/p/anno…
Go @RoryKirchner !!
Ginkgo Computational Biologist @RoryKirchner noticed that the broker schedule for our autonomous lab, Nebula, looked like music production software.
So naturally he turned all of the lab instruments into MIDI instruments. The result is the first ever musical track made by an autonomous lab.
Introducing… DJ Nebula.
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I get and agree with the argument at AI will lift prevention and cures as well as threats, but covid showed us already that - even with warp speed development- this is not symmetric and it lands in favor of threats
Correct take- most predictions will be wrong, but what matters is how exponential growth amplifies tail risk. We need harm reduction on every available axis.
(1/2) re: experts disagreeing about Anthropic report...
Of course they do...
We are on an exponential curve of technical change in both bioengineering and AI - accurate predictions of what will be done are impossible
Please just read @waitbutwhy from 2015
science.org/content/article/…
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People are now submitting artisanal, entirely human-driven proofs to arxiv and passing it off as an LLM
