Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2026-07-29 21:02

Google. The graveyard of projects.

@corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 2026-07-29 22:44

alphafold isn’t sunsetting, they are dismantling the original research team. its still active and being worked on

@errer@lemmy.world 2026-07-29 22:30

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t AlphaFold basically solve protein folding, as in their master database of folds is now complete? Doesn’t it make sense to move on at this point?

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@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2026-07-30 05:18

So the actually useful product gets shit down for the useless product

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@halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2026-07-30 02:23

So I finally let my Android Auto update from Google Assistant to Gemini, which it’s been wanting for months. First thing I did was prompt it to play a specific artist, just like I do at least once a week since it forces me to use the voice activation instead of the on screen keyboard, even when there are passengers that can type. It responded saying it is not capable of playing music at all. Wtf. So I then rephrase and tell it to play the artist on YouTube Music… And it does so, but doesn’t get the artist even close to correct. I had to prompt it 5 times with varying emphasis to get it to finally get it right. So literally the first thing it did wa like to me… and then it worked correctly less than 20% of the time… So much better than the Assistant it replaced that never gave me a problem. Totally better.

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@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-29 19:44

The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.

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@Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2026-07-30 23:41

Don’t be [maximally] evil.

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