• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Those things are being solved by other forms of AI, not LLMs. AlphaFold is about the most useful thing AI has done so far and it’s not a chatbot.

    We get access to entertainment AI, but there could be different forms of AI in use in medical science that have nothing to do with image or text generation.

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      5 hours ago

      AlphaFold’s success seems to be largely linked to its use of attention-based architecture, similar to GPT, i.e. the architecture used by LLMs. Beyond that, they are both building on work in machine learning and statistics, so I don’t think they are nearly as independent as you are making out.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, but LLM innovation now is not in more clever architectures, but rather larger and larger models with more training data.

        I don’t hate the existence of LLMs but rather how they’re being shoehorned everywhere and how much power is being spent for just a little bit better results.