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Hello readers,
Welcome to another edition of This Week in the Future! Profluent unveiled OpenCRISPR, a human genome editor that could revolutionize medicine. Plus, Anthropic shares research on how to survive an AI sleeper cell.
Let’s get into it!
In Biotech, AI Builds You
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Biotech startup Profluent has unveiled OpenCRISPR, the world’s first open source, AI-generated gene editor, marking the first successful precision editing of the human genome with customizable gene editors designed by AI.
No, this does not mean AI will mutate our collective biomass into electrodes it can harvest for energy, but it does mean the promising field of gene editing will be supercharged, potentially revolutionizing medicine.
The Rise of Medical AI
Drug discovery remains one of the most promising uses of AI. So much so that Moderna partnered with OpenAI to advance mRNA medicine, Hugging Face launched the Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard, and Xaira emerged from stealth with $1 billion in funding.
Our Take
The more AI understands about human biology, the more it can manipulate it (for good, of course). It wouldn’t be surprising if another Theranos appeared amidst this AI health stampede though. Despite the potential risks, drug discovery is still a worthwhile pursuit.
🔥 Rapid Fire
China’s SenseTime claims SenseNova 5.0 surpasses GPT-4
Microsoft introduces Phi-3, a powerful small language model
Snowflake releases Arctic, an open LLM for enterprise
Perplexity launches Enterprise Pro plan and Pro Search
OpenAI adds more enterprise features for API customers
Elon Musk demands documents from ex-OpenAI board member
Cohere releases generative AI development toolkit
Apple open sources OpenELM small language model
Lenovo publishes AI-focused Global CIO Report 2024
Meta adds multimodal AI to Ray-Ban smart glasses
AWS updates Bedrock for easier generative AI development
Salesforce announces general availability of Einstein Copilot
Sanctuary AI unveils next generation Phoenix robot
Groq and Earth Wind & Power build AI compute center for Europe
CERN uses edge AI for novel environmental monitoring system
US Army provides updates on Project Linchpin AI program
Sakana AI introduces Japanese image generation model
Adobe introduces Firefly 3 model and VideoGigaGAN for upscaling
📖 What We’re Reading
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“In this post we present “defection probes”: linear classifiers that use residual stream activations to predict when a sleeper agent trojan model will choose to “defect” and behave in accordance with a dangerous hidden goal.”
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