>Deep-learning language models have shown promise in various biotechnological applications, including protein design and engineering. Here we describe ProGen, a language model that can generate protein sequences with a predictable function across large protein families, akin to generating grammatically and semantically correct natural language sentences on diverse topics. The model was trained on 280 million protein sequences from >19,000 families and is augmented with control tags specifying protein properties. ProGen can be further fine-tuned to curated sequences and tags to improve controllable generation performance of proteins from families with sufficient homologous samples. Artificial proteins fine-tuned to five distinct lysozyme families showed similar catalytic efficiencies as natural lysozymes, with sequence identity to natural proteins as low as 31.4%. ProGen is readily adapted to diverse protein families, as we demonstrate with chorismate mutase and malate dehydrogenase.

North too. I live in the UP of Michigan and it’s basically southern Alabama with warmer coats.

Cool!

As a residential builder myself, I’m very interested to see what the next 20 years holds. I’m 49 now so this is pretty much what I have left to work.

Yes probably. You don't need to learn anything to be generally intelligent if you've already been trained on the entirety of human knowledge.

All good

Maybe mud brick houses?

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Right okay I understand. Do you actually believe we will get ai robots in 20yrs capable of installing waters main etc? It just seems such a complex task for a robot.

Unless it's full automated luxury communism we're talking about.

It's an issue Google itself is facing. It keeps firing it's AI ethicists who are complaining about the bias being put into these programs

He's right behind me, isn't he.

Given abundant robot labor, I expect the largest component of costs will be the cost of energy and raw materials.

That can mean much cheaper goods and services in general, that's an important part of his $1200/month UBI idea. While you can count on the labor part being cheap, it's not a given the raw materials will be a lot cheaper. There will be massive demand for materials as people spread out from cities, even with massive increase in raw materials production with cheap robot labor. The labor part of installing utilities may not be a prob, but certain equipment you're just not going to make onsite. The most expensive things will still be those made in other people's factories. You just can't hope to be 100% self-sufficient and live a technologically modern lifestyle, even with robot labor.

The world is going to get weird.

Everyone will make their own culture, or cultures will develop that don't relate to any others - at least not in the same social structure rules that exist.

It will be like how North American TV culture and Japanese Anime is wildly different in their story telling and art styles.

AI generated art, AI generated stories, all custom made on your phone.

Hopefully a pushback of doing real things with real people will emerge.

Some forms of housing can be dobe exactly this way, harvest the raw materials on site and process them to a solid building material right there. Take a look at the work of Nader Khalili, specifically Ceramic Houses . I've wanted to try one of his fired structures fir a long time, however the area I live in doesnt have the right ratio of energy:cement costs to make it all that economical. Might still do it just because.

Basically it will not approaches to zero Since, governments works on energy distribution and collection. So people have to pay taxes to run them

Unfortunately, it would take the deconstruction of our current system. It doesn't matter what 'ism' you subscribe to; they all work if they aren't infected by corruption. It is possible to draw merit from each teaching/lifestyle.

While I can't remember what exactly the OP said, there was nothing to indicate they meant accidental danger rather than intentional on the part of the AGI, and their arguments are in-line with other typical arguments that also go in that direction. If I was making an assumption, it wasn't out of preference. But if you want to go there, then yes, I believe that AGI will not inherently have its own motivations unless given them, and I don't believe those motivations will include harming people. But I also believe that it's possible to control an AGI and even an ASI, but alignment is a more difficult issue.

Yea but its created by “meta”, I’ll skip

I’ll never forgive zuckerberg for ruining the VR market with his buying and burying of companies, he’s a narcissistic sociopathic megalomaniac with dreams of being The Architect, i hope “meta” crashes and burns.

We could use hemp and dead wood to 3d print basic furnitures.

Thanks for your input.
I was hoping to paint a picture of what I think is the competitive landscape that will be coloring the developments over the next years.
I am glad you found the article helpful and took the time to share your thoughs! I appreciate it!

Oh really? This is interesting. Have you got any suggestions on the utilities issue?

They mean a top of the line gpu priced in the thoudands like RTX 4090 and its probably slow as hell, barely consumer-grade

Altman is right...to some degree. I do eco-construction and you can definitely build a well insulated house with local raw materials (adobe, clay, compressed earth brick, straw). No concrete or fancy material though. Electric system could be 3d printed in the future and directly integrated in the structure.

Thank you! I am glad you liked it.
I fixed the link. Thanks for pointing it out!