No, Google’s AI Program Can’t Build Your Genome Sequence

The Google Brain team declared that their new AI system was an astonishing breakthrough in genomics. Turns out it’s more like an incremental improvement on a well-understood problem. Wired fell for the hype, but you don’t have to. Read more

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