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by surfingdino 737 days ago
Not holding my breath for that hallucinated cure for cancer then.
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LLMs aren't the only kind of AI, just one of the two current shiny kinds.

If a "cure for cancer" (cancer is not just one disease so, unfortunately, that's not even as coherent a request as we'd all like it to be) is what you're hoping for, look instead at the stuff like AlphaFold etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold

I don't know how to tell where real science ends and PR bluster begins in such models, though I can say that the closest I've heard to a word against it is "sure, but we've got other things besides protein folding to solve", which is a good sign.

(I assume AlphaFold is also a mysterious black box, and that tools such as the one under discussion may help us demystify it too).