• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Never claimed it was and LLM. People’s job was through multiple means trying to discover the shape of proteins. There are a lot of ways to apply NN to take over labor people were doing before. Particularly with general purpose robotics but many other nonphysical tasks can similarly be automated, like searching a solution space.

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      The conflation of neural networks and large language models is the most common way I see people claim talking to chatbots as science. You know damn well what ‘ai’ means in this context: the article is about chatbots, not NN in general, certainly not robotics.

      People’s job was through multiple means trying to discover the shape of proteins

      Oh, and they were replaced? The neural network publishes papers now? That’s ridiculous. It’s a tool that unlocks new science, no researcher is throwing up their hands like ‘oh, whelp, guess alphafold is the future, no need for me anymore!’

      Gish gallop response, just as I expected.