▲ 725 ▼ Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini (www.engadget.com) submitted 1 month ago by JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 119 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago (2 children) AlphaFold is Google’s AI approach to protein folding… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) I meant that I thought they were merging the two if Gemini could simply do what AlphaFold had been doing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago Gemini is a completely different project. The term “AI” is rather overloaded these days. AlphaFold uses a combination of machine learning and physics simulations to predict the shape of a protein given its chemical formula. Gemini is a Large Language Model which uses machine learning to predict text completion. They both use “machine learning” but the machine learning models are wildly different. Machine learning is a technique that’s basically a fancy curve fitting approach. The curve AlphaFold is trained to mimic maps chemical formulas to shapes, while the curve Gemini mimics maps a text input to probabilities for predictions of the next letter(s). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) I meant that I thought they were merging the two if Gemini could simply do what AlphaFold had been doing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago Gemini is a completely different project. The term “AI” is rather overloaded these days. AlphaFold uses a combination of machine learning and physics simulations to predict the shape of a protein given its chemical formula. Gemini is a Large Language Model which uses machine learning to predict text completion. They both use “machine learning” but the machine learning models are wildly different. Machine learning is a technique that’s basically a fancy curve fitting approach. The curve AlphaFold is trained to mimic maps chemical formulas to shapes, while the curve Gemini mimics maps a text input to probabilities for predictions of the next letter(s). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago Gemini is a completely different project. The term “AI” is rather overloaded these days. AlphaFold uses a combination of machine learning and physics simulations to predict the shape of a protein given its chemical formula. Gemini is a Large Language Model which uses machine learning to predict text completion. They both use “machine learning” but the machine learning models are wildly different. Machine learning is a technique that’s basically a fancy curve fitting approach. The curve AlphaFold is trained to mimic maps chemical formulas to shapes, while the curve Gemini mimics maps a text input to probabilities for predictions of the next letter(s). permalink fedilink source parent