Proteins control so much of what our body does
Unfolding a protein used to take scientists months, years (or even decades like the 12 years for myoglobin):
Now, with Alphafold, and AI tool, one can do that in minutes:
Why is this important? Diseases are often tied to some protein error, and if we know where in the protein things are going wrong, we can develop a drug to deal with this disease. These kind of applications could stand to change humanity for the better.
On the other side of things:
When one hired a graphic designer, a writer, a data analyst. The end product required some level of thought, time, training, which warrants merit and hard work — this has all been replaced by some 10 sentence prompt.
AI is also derivative, it draws from original ideas and creates its own collage, inspired by them, often by stealing them:
We will always be in the loop.
