AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment(biohub.org)
81 pointsby ray__6 hours ago5 comments
  • randomdrake4 hours ago
    I’ve been toying with the idea of a SETI@Home successor that uses leftover subscription credits from the (currently) subsidized AI providers to help contribute to a collective goal like this.

    I wonder if there will be any opportunities to combine resources collectively like that again in the future.

    I built a small prototype that would let people in less-developed countries get AI responses from it for free. But it’d be super neat to work together and put our laptops and subscriptions to work on something like this.

    • oefrhaan hour ago
      Sounds like a great way to get your account suspended… My Claude account was once mysteriously suspended (I wasn’t doing any reselling/sharing and not asking anything sensitive) then mysteriously restored three days later, so I’d say actually violating ToS is likely more risky, given that they seem to not mind suspending false positives at all, and you have zero recourse once you’re suspended. Their customer support is an AI chat bot and even that chat bot page just redirects to the suspended page lol.
      • randomdrake37 minutes ago
        You’re right, of course. I never made it out of PoC. But I also implemented something with locally running models to do the same thing. Request comes in, gets forwarded to a machine not currently busy, it serves.

        It would be great if we could use the credits we pay for and don’t use on our subsidized subscriptions as well. But, yes, a matter of “when” not “if” for your account getting shut down.

    • a_bonobo44 minutes ago
      There used to be folding@home for exactly this; pre-Alphafold days, where you could run protein folding on your machine.
      • randomdrake36 minutes ago
        Yes! I used to love watching the visualizations for this. You’ve got the right idea. If it truly is AI processing to help us eventually create this virtual biology, why not our idle machines with models running on them?
    • arcanemachiner3 hours ago
      I feel like it would be better to create open synthetic training data for all to benefit from,or something along those lines, as opposed to giving it to those claiming to be in need, as such a system would be exploited and abused in a matter of days.
  • Fomite5 hours ago
    Meanwhile the current administration is actively taking formerly publicly available data sets that are critical for research offline.
  • redanddead3 hours ago
    Could be cool

    It’s like the Mayo Clinic’s data grant

  • swframe22 hours ago
    We need increasely difficult bio-agi contests.
    • m3kw9an hour ago
      put that RSI to use here and let it rip
  • PivoGraphan hour ago
    [flagged]