Did AI Caused This Scientist to Lose Her Job? Yan Ning Addresses Rumors

December 11, 2022 By Raulf Hernes

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Here comes the AI takeover. When structural biologist Yan Ning of China decided to leave a permanent position at Princeton University in favor of employment in her home country, she claimed that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) had rendered her field of study obsolete. At least, that is what some newspapers reported. According to reports, Yan Ning, a Chinese scientist, broke her silence in the Shenzhen forum and refuted claims that her country's return was due to a defeat in the war against artificial intelligence. The scientist told the media that despite recent developments in machine learning, artificial intelligence still has to be developed in several areas of her specialty. Yan stated, "We embrace AI, but we are unhappy after testing it out," at the Xplorer Forum, which was held on November 27 in Shenzhen and was organized by the Southern University of Science and Technology. She also covered AlphaFold, a class of DeepMind's artificial intelligence program that forecasts protein structure, in her speech. Yan Ning

The main topic of the speech is the limitations of AI in structural biology research. The purpose of structural biology, according to a number of eminent academics, is biology itself: to understand life and make biological discoveries. A structure resolution is merely a tool for this. Also Read: Researchers Design New Ink for 3D Printable Wearable Bioelectronics "The result is not bad, but not enough to replace scientists everywhere," said Yan on the forum. The projections, which are based on learning from existing protein structures, are more accurate for proteins with comparable amino acid sequences and appear flawed for novel proteins, according to the scientist, who also noted that there is still much work to be done. The Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation announced on Nov. 1 that Yan, who departed Tsinghua University in China for Princeton in 2017, would take over as dean. In her most recent speech, she denied suggestions that an AI was to blame for her "unemployment."

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Did AI Caused This Scientist to Lose Her Job? Yan Ning Addresses Rumors

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