OpenAI 正在建造第一个核武器的实验室中试验人工智能在生物科学研究中的应用

OpenAI 在 7 月 9 日的一份声明中表示，它正在与实验室的生物科学部门合作，评估 GPT-4o 等人工智能模型如何帮助科学家

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 正在与负责制造世界上第一个核武器的洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室 (LANL) 合作，尝试在生物科学研究中使用人工智能。

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 日的一份声明中表示，它正在与实验室的生物科学部门合作，评估 GPT-4o 等人工智能模型如何帮助科学家在物理实验室中执行任务。

“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 写道：“这包括对 GPT-4o 及其当前未发布的实时语音系统进行生物安全评估，以了解如何使用它们来支持生物科学研究。”

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 成立于 1943 年，其目标只有一个：设计和制造世界上第一颗原子弹。近 50 年来，该实验室主要专注于高水平军事研究，但在 1991 年冷战结束后，它将重点转向民用研究和开发。

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 的生物科学部门致力于广泛的研究领域，包括疫苗开发、可持续生物技术、气候变化对疾病出现的影响以及各种形式的生物威胁检测。

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“多模态”大语言模型，允许用户通过语音、图像和文本与聊天机器人实时对话。

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.

该伙伴关系的任务概述了细胞转化等任务，其中包括将外源遗传物质引入宿主生物体、细胞培养和细胞分离。

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，即将到来的合作伙伴关系将建立在其之前的生物科学工作的两个主要方面，包括纳入“湿实验室技术”，其中涉及训练模型以协助执行质谱等更复杂的任务。

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，这家人工智能公司表示，其工作将侧重于实验室环境中人工智能使用的新“模式”，GPT-4o 的语音和视觉输入开辟了新的渠道，“可能加快科学家的学习”。

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

这家人工智能公司表示，与该实验室的合作将有助于其正在进行的生物威胁风险工作。

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

这一新的合作伙伴关系正值大型科技公司——包括微软和苹果——由于监管担忧日益加剧而开始与这家人工智能初创公司保持距离。

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，微软致函 OpenAI，宣布退出董事会，距离这家 Windows 软件制造商向 OpenAI 投资 130 亿美元仅一年。

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

6 月，欧盟监管机构宣布 OpenAI 可能因其与微软的合作而面临欧盟反垄断调查。