Hacker News with Generative AI: Life Science

Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life (livescience.com)
Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (sakana.ai)
For the past 300,000 years, Earth has had only one form of advanced intelligence on it: humans. With the recent advent of AI foundation models, some believe we are at the dawn of a new kind of intelligence.