AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, solved the 50-year-old “protein folding problem” by accurately predicting the three-dimensional structure of nearly any protein from its amino acid sequence.
Today it’s widely used to speed up drug discovery, vaccine development, and disease research by cutting out a major bottleneck.
But sure, let’s throw all the nuance out the window and just generalize that AI sucks.
Yes, but the average joe conflates AI with LLMs. We should just let it go and use “machine learning” or maybe invent some new terminology, the term “AI” is hopelessly lost to the techbros marketing speech.
Yeah, AI has been around in some form almost as long as computers have, and it’s been quietly useful that whole time. But everyone using generative AI over the past few years to try and make a quick buck with little effort or churn out propaganda is overshadowing everything. It’ll be nice in a few years, after the bubble pops, to go back to AI being a niche use case.
Newsflash AI actually sucks
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AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, solved the 50-year-old “protein folding problem” by accurately predicting the three-dimensional structure of nearly any protein from its amino acid sequence.
Today it’s widely used to speed up drug discovery, vaccine development, and disease research by cutting out a major bottleneck.
But sure, let’s throw all the nuance out the window and just generalize that AI sucks.
Yes, but the average joe conflates AI with LLMs. We should just let it go and use “machine learning” or maybe invent some new terminology, the term “AI” is hopelessly lost to the techbros marketing speech.
LLMs suck.
Which is what most people mean when they say AI.
You can blame techbro marketing for that conflation.
I do.
I hate how common LLMs have become, how the speach around it is antropomorphized, and how actual useful AIs are overlooked.
Yeah, AI has been around in some form almost as long as computers have, and it’s been quietly useful that whole time. But everyone using generative AI over the past few years to try and make a quick buck with little effort or churn out propaganda is overshadowing everything. It’ll be nice in a few years, after the bubble pops, to go back to AI being a niche use case.