[khaled_ismaeel]

> I think it's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like aging, cancer, Alzheimer's.

Machine learning is certainly a extremely handy in tacking these issues, thinking of breakthroughs like AlphaFold and similar. However, I'd like to push against your take:

1. There already are tremendous developments happening in those fronts you mentioned. Praising AI as "our only chance" is quite a stretch and possibly even a harmful statement, considering how severely under-funded these research projects are.

2. It seems to me the poem is more about LLMs/glorified chat bots than general machine learning. In that context, I wouldn't consider them as super useful in Alzheimer's research, certainly not "our only chance".

[bufferoverflow]

1. You need to read carefully. I didn't say it was our only chance. I said it was our only chance to do it quickly, I even emphasized the word.

I'm sure humanity can grind through these hard problems in hundreds or thousands of years without AIs.

But I would prefer to be alive, so there's urgency.