alt Hacker NewsYeah it’s a really strange title for the actual work, it’s like saying bic pens helped find x y z simply because they used them to take notes.
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dumb1224 • 04/29/2025
The paper has a much clearer title 'Transcriptional regulation by PHGDH drives amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease'. This is from the univ press media page, it's very common to use over-hyped titles to draw views.
>“It really demanded modern AI to formulate the three-dimensional structure very precisely to make this discovery.”
It's not like bic pens. It's a new technique they couldn't do before that helped crack the mystery.
Also the title is "AI Helps..." not "AI Discovers" so that's kind of a strawman. I don't think anyone is denying the humans did great work. Maybe it's more like Joe Boggs uses the Hubble telescope to find a new galaxy and moaning because the telescope gets a mention.
I'm quite enthusiastic about the AI bit. My grandad died with alzheimer's 50 years ago. My sister is due to die of als in a couple of years. Both areas have been kind of stuck for decades. I'm hoping the AI modeling allows some breakthroughs.