Excellent analysis, why isnโt low-field MRI more popular? It sounds great for incidental findings or screening populations. I think the Midjourney proposition is to get enough scans to correlate incidental findings to noisy signal โ if you make it cheap enough, might be feasible for some conditions.
Since two of these benchmarks are provided by us @Dyno_Tx , I can confidently comment.
- The AAV one is uncontaminated private data of a viral trait that we've been measuring for years (i.e. sharing publicly will defeat its purpose), and use it every day (required not sufficient) to design capsids that actually do work in primates. This performance provides a real lift in expertise and resources needed to do viral evolution.
- The black-box sequence design challenge is our take-home interview. Fable completely outperforms the best people in the field on given the same exact instructions as humans, again in a private task not seen on the internet. We will release this task publicly at some point.
Biology is slow. Real accomplishments take time because the bottlenecks downstream are meaningful.
But dismissing both the upside and the risk is highly premature. They've accomplished about as much as you could imagine. In particular, being wrong on the risk is extremely costly. I for one am the most excited I've ever been that bio is going to be transformed, and agentic reasoning is a big part of why.
Also the "unknown company" is actually very well known among experts because they are all very smart/accomplished people but are not hype-y on the twitter-verse.
@agupta The local council did an excellent job changing zoning a few years ago. Some leftist member still complain on an affordability grounds, but you cannot deny it is working.
@HistoryBoomer now talk about the crazies in the subway...
and also you forgot about one very important groups that funds most public spending...
in what fairy tale do you live?
we live in age of great moral panics about things that donโt matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins weโve ever seen