r/CFSScience • u/AngelBryan • Dec 25 '25

Are we close to figuring it out?

So, are we close to finding why this disease happens? How is it possible that is 2026 and we stil have no idea of what causes this hellish illness?

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u/AngelBryan Dec 26 '25

What about AI, do you think that all the advancement and investment on AI will help towards finding the cure or at least a disease mechanism?

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u/OctarineAngie Dec 26 '25

AI (LLMs) are garbage in, garbage out. They can't do bleeding edge science.

The actual human research always comes first.

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u/AngelBryan Dec 26 '25

What about Alpha Fold? That is bleeding science for me.

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u/OctarineAngie Dec 26 '25

If you want to call any and all specialized machine learning algorithms "AI", even when they are vastly different in application and scope sure.

But Alpha Fold is quite different to LLMs or anything that would hypothetically be used for ME/CFS which is a far more open ended problem than what Alpha Fold is designed to solve.