OpenAI 正在建造第一個核武的實驗室中試驗人工智慧在生物科學研究中的應用

OpenAI 在 7 月 9 日的聲明中表示，它正在與實驗室的生物科學部門合作，評估 GPT-4o 等人工智慧模型如何幫助科學家

OpenAI is partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) — the lab responsible for building the first nuclear weapon in the world — to experiment with the use of AI in bioscience research.

OpenAI 正在與負責製造世界上第一個核武的洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室 (LANL) 合作，嘗試在生物科學研究中使用人工智慧。

In a July 9 statement, OpenAI said it was working with the laboratory’s bioscience division to evaluate how AI models such as GPT-4o can assist scientists with performing tasks in a physical lab.

OpenAI 在 7 月 9 日的聲明中表示，它正在與實驗室的生物科學部門合作，評估 GPT-4o 等人工智慧模型如何幫助科學家在物理實驗室中執行任務。

“This includes biological safety evaluations for GPT-4o and its currently unreleased real-time voice systems to understand how they could be used to support research in bioscience,” wrote OpenAI.

OpenAI 寫道：“這包括對 GPT-4o 及其目前未發布的即時語音系統進行生物安全評估，以了解如何使用它們來支持生物科學研究。”

LANL was founded in 1943 with a single goal in mind, to design and build the world’s first atomic bomb. For nearly 50 years, the lab focused primarily on high-level military research but following the end of the Cold War in 1991 it shifted its focus to civilian research and development.

LANL 成立於 1943 年，目標只有一個：設計和製造世界上第一顆原子彈。近 50 年來，該實驗室主要專注於高水準軍事研究，但在 1991 年冷戰結束後，它將重點轉向民用研究和開發。

Today, the bioscience division of LANL works on a wide range of research areas, including vaccine development, sustainability biotech, the impact of climate change on disease emergence, and various forms of biothreat detection.

如今，LANL 的生物科學部門致力於廣泛的研究領域，包括疫苗開發、永續生物技術、氣候變遷對疾病出現的影響以及各種形式的生物威脅檢測。

GPT4o is the latest “multimodal” large language model from OpenAI, allowing users to converse with the chatbot in real-time with voice, imagery, and text.

GPT4o 是 OpenAI 最新的「多模態」大語言模型，允許用戶透過語音、圖像和文字與聊天機器人即時對話。

The partnership’s mandate outlines tasks such as cell transformation, which involves introducing foreign genetic material into a host organism, cell culture, and cell separation.

此夥伴關係的任務概述了細胞轉化等任務，其中包括將外源遺傳物質引入宿主生物體、細胞培養和細胞分離。

OpenAI said the upcoming partnership will build on its previous bioscience work in two primary dimensions, including the incorporation of “wet lab techniques,” which involves training models to assist in conducting more complex tasks like mass spectrometry.

OpenAI 表示，即將到來的合作夥伴關係將建立在其先前的生物科學工作的兩個主要方面，包括納入“濕實驗室技術”，其中涉及訓練模型以協助執行質譜等更複雜的任務。

Additionally, the AI firm said its work would focus on new “modalities” of AI use in the laboratory setting, with GPT-4o’s voice and visual inputs opening up new channels to “potentially expedite learning” among scientists.

此外，這家人工智慧公司表示，其工作將側重於實驗室環境中人工智慧使用的新“模式”，GPT-4o 的語音和視覺輸入開闢了新的管道，“可能加快科學家的學習”。

The artificial intelligence firm said the work with the laboratory would contribute to its ongoing work on biothreat risks.

這家人工智慧公司表示，與該實驗室的合作將有助於其正在進行的生物威脅風險工作。

The new partnership comes as large tech companies — including Microsoft and Apple — begin to distance themselves from the AI startup amid growing regulatory concerns.

這項新的合作關係正值大型科技公司——包括微軟和蘋果——由於監管擔憂日益加劇而開始與這家人工智慧新創公司保持距離。

On July 10, Microsoft penned a letter to OpenAI announcing its withdrawal from the board, just one year after the Windows software maker made a $13 billion investment in the firm.

7 月 10 日，微軟致函 OpenAI，宣布退出董事會，距離這家 Windows 軟體製造商向 OpenAI 投資 130 億美元僅一年。

In June, European Union regulators announced that OpenAI could face an EU antitrust investigation over its partnership with Microsoft.

6 月，歐盟監管機構宣布 OpenAI 可能因其與微軟的合作而面臨歐盟反壟斷調查。