alt Hacker News> LLM-powered vaccine development
Good lord!
I hope somebody is documenting all these bombastic LLM-related public statements. They're going to be a neverending source of cringe and laughs for the next 50 years.
(I've heard one C-level dude say with a straight face that LLMs were a "more significant invention than writing".)
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it looks like they have been used at least once to help develop a vaccine. they're not as significant as writing but they do seem to have their uses.
https://theconversation.com/a-man-used-ai-to-help-make-a-can...
> Good lord!
>I hope somebody is documenting all these bombastic LLM-related public statements.
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This has been in use for awhile.
https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/26/3/bbaf263/8158336
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12970898/
How it gets used: https://mlconference.ai/blog/ai-in-vaccine-development/
You're a Google search away from fact checking me if you want to do that.
I'm a DevOps engineer, not a C suite guy, but I tend to agree with you in general. I think there is a lot of smoke being blown into the hive around this technology but having used it extensively, and having witnessed its progression first hand in engineering, these tools are insanely useful and have made giant leaps forward in just ~4 years.
Don't know if you're a believer in Moore's Law or not, but I don't think your tune is going to take anywhere near 50 years to change. I'd be surprised if it took 5 years.