Dr. Richard Moulange
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That said, anecdotally, I do know of people who have said this sort of stuff has been transformational, especially PhD students.
Maybe that's biased because I was a PhD student fairly recently.
But the ability to have an infinitely patient postdoc level assistant who is just there on your computer, you don't have to go and call someone up, get them out of a meeting, is hugely important.
And people are saying, yes, when I get stuck, I don't have to go to my professor who only meets me once a month.
I can just go to the chatbot right there.
We should note also that I think there's just always going to be a lag in uptake.
This is something like a sort of so-called capability overhang.
The models might already be this good, but will that filter through to everyone who's using it?
It will take time.
We even saw this with AlphaFold, which was hugely impressive, but it took a while for every protein structural biologist under the sun to work with it.
Of course, now they will do.
So I think there are several points here to discuss.
One is intent, and intent really is an important barrier.
It's very easy to say there is a capability in the world and then assume that there must be omnicidal people on every street corner who wish to use that capability to do mass harm.
But saying that intent is low is not to say intent is zero.
The use of biology for catastrophic harm against fellow human beings, but also agriculture and animal and plant life is well-documented historically.
And you said something like, oh, we've never really seen some of this stuff
I think yours was slightly overstrong.
The Soviet Bioprepare Act program, the very large-scale biological weapons program of the Soviet Union that ran well toward the end of the 20th century, did in fact very likely produce viable biological weapons, including transmissible viruses like smallpox, in very large quantities.
And it was explicitly the intent of the relevant military and political leaders to deploy those in a so-called strategic situation in the case of a large-scale war with the United States, potentially actually as a response or a deterrent against the use of nuclear weapons.
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