alt Hacker NewsCool can we use AI to get a cure for cancer yet? Or is math-turbation the only thing these things are good for? Where are the breakthroughs on actually improving our lives?
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ianm218 • today at 2:21 PM
Cancer is also bottleknecked by a lot more than just intelligence. If you have 100 of the smartest PHd students working on a cancer problem you have to wait for funding, lab experiments, and clinical trials etc. Math is deterministic and requires nothing like that.
slashdave • today at 4:41 PM
LLMs work within the world of what has been written. That is, what is known.
And cancer is not a single disease that can be cured with one therapy.
esafak • today at 2:40 PM
Have you not heard of things like AlphaFold?
It's interesting to see the old "Why would we go to space when there are still uncured diseases" show up in a place like this. Science and discovery are singular, all discovery aids all discovery.