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AI is here to help, whether you’re drafting an email, making some concept art, or running a scam on vulnerable folks by making them think you’re a friend or relative in distress. AI is so versatile! But since some people would rather not be scammed, let’s talk a little about what to watch out for.

The last few years have seen a huge uptick not just in the quality of generated media, from text to audio to images and video, but also in how cheaply and easily that media can be created.

The same type of tool that helps a concept artist cook up some fantasy monsters or spaceships, or lets a non-native speaker improve their business English, can be put to malicious use as well.

This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge. We’ll be sure to add news ones as they appear in the wild, or any additional steps you can take to protect yourself.

Stanford scientists have developed a new machine learning-based method to more quickly and accurately predict the molecular changes that will lead to better antibody drugs.

Published in Science on July 4, the approach combines the 3D structure of the protein backbone with large language models based on amino acid sequence, and allows researchers to find, in minutes, rare and desirable mutations that would otherwise only be found with exhaustive experiments.

Led by Peter S. Kim, professor of biochemistry and institute scholar at Sarafan ChEM-H, and Brian Hie, assistant professor of chemical engineering, the team showed that they could improve a once FDA-approved SARS-CoV-2 antibody that had been discontinued due to its ineffectiveness against a new strain in November 2022. Their approach resulted in a 25-fold improvement against the virus.

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• 🖼️Midjourney: Create high-quality images from simple text prompts (link)