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by kmarc 293 days ago
Reminds me of this story on the Babbage podcast a month ago:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/07/02/...

My understanding is, iterating on possible sequences (of codons, base pairs, etc) is exactly what LLMs, these feedback-looped predictor machines, are especially great at. With the newest models, those that "reason about" (check) their own output, are even better at it.