alt Hacker NewsThis article is trashy trash trash. The only mention of AI in the actual paper is that they used ChatGPT for grammar correction. The article doesn't explain what or how AI was used beyond "three dimensional modeling".
A paper author did quote the use of AI. But without explaining precisely how AI was used and why it was valuable this article is basically clickbait trash. Was AI necessary for their key result? If so how and why? We don't know!
Everything about this screams "just say AI and we'll get more attention".
That's not true, the paper used AlphaFold 3. The disclaimer is about generative AI, not AI writ large.
I agree the UCSD writeup is pretty misleading; the authors used protein-modeling software, which is really not very interesting, and the fact that the SOTA protein modeler uses machine learning is not at all relevant to this specific paper.