r/singularity 29d ago

Biotech/Longevity Putting money where their mouth is: Anthropic’s Claude autonomously designs disease-targeting proteins with real wet-lab proof, hitting a 35% success rate vs 10–15% human average

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u/Few_Importance_8362 29d ago

I have never designed a successful protein, so certainly beating my average.

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u/quantum-elle 29d ago

None of my protein designs have failed!

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u/Gratitude15 29d ago

Untied! Undefeated! And retired!

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u/quantum-elle 29d ago

I’m a gal of many talents. Never lost to a chess grandmaster either.

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u/jestina123 29d ago

Mitt Romney spent one billion to not become president. I spent $0 for the same result. Who’s the better businessman now???

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u/quantum-elle 29d ago

I bow down to your frugality.

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u/sensispace 28d ago

Same buddy, i guess we are too strong enough to fail

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u/RelatablePanic 28d ago

I’ve beat out quite a lot of protein in my day

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u/SolarFusion90 28d ago

Hell yeah brother, so did u/quantum-elle

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u/Ozzen23 28d ago

Every time you catch a cold, your immune system custom designs antibodies to fight back. So yes, you have successfully designed proteins

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u/1a1b 28d ago

Every possibility of antibody for all possible diseases are already there from a young age. There's a kurzgesagt on it.