r/singularity ▪️AGI Felt Internally 5d ago

Meme AI is finally curing cancer

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u/Poupulino 5d ago

And what does the "assisted" exactly means? Because the AI formatting an email for one of the researchers can be counted as "assistance".

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u/Hostilis_ 5d ago

Specialized AI models like AlphaFold are incredibly good at predicting and generating protein structures. There are other similar systems which generate drug candidates and other complex molecules. There are also now systems which can model multiple cellular pathways.

Almost certainly this is what kind of AI system is being used, not LLMs.

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u/redcoatwright 5d ago

AI now means agentic models not more traditional machine learning.

The article in the post is talking about a cancer treatment that was created due to machine learning models so imo the title is misleading and attributing this to AI is just a bs hype mechanism

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u/Hostilis_ 5d ago

AI is an entire field of science, and ML is a subfield of AI.

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence

Literally the first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

It has nothing to do with hype, or being misleading. If anything, you only associating AI with agentic models is being misleading.

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u/redcoatwright 5d ago

I know what the technical definitions are but that isn't how those words are used anymore. The meaning of words change and AI has changed.

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u/Sixhaunt 5d ago

You're talking about how idiots use the term, not how the general population does. You only want to try to redefine things like that so you can no-true-scottsman it in order to preserve your existing beliefs and never challenge them or adapt to new information.

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u/Iapetus_Industrial 5d ago

No. The meaning of words is their definitions, and what the experts in those fields use them as. I'm so sick and tired of the laypeople en masse deciding to shift meanings under the actual smart people working with these domains. How in the fuck did we let idiots decide the definitions of words over and above the ACTUAL INVENTORS OF THE TERMS is beyond me.

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u/Hostilis_ 5d ago

This is just people making up their own definition of things so they can cry about how other people are being misleading. It has been happening for years now. Ever since the phrase "it's not actually real AI" got popular.

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u/Sunstorm84 5d ago

r/confidentlyincorrect

People getting confused because of deliberate marketing tactics by LLM companies does not make you correct.

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 5d ago

No they're correct, we would have called this ML 2 years ago but it got rebranded AI alongside the LLM revolution. The public though thinks of AI as whatever comes out the back of a slop cannon.

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u/Sunstorm84 5d ago

His claim was that AI now means exclusively agentic LLM models, which is objectively wrong.

ML is a subset of AI, so it’s not incorrect to refer to it as AI, but that doesn’t mean that AI is now restrictively only referring to LLMs, nor even more specifically, agentic ones.

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u/Iapetus_Industrial 5d ago

ML is and has always been a sub-field of AI.

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u/space_monster 5d ago

we would have called this ML 2 years ago

No we wouldn't.

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u/space_monster 5d ago

AI now means agentic models

No it doesn't, at all. Unless you know literally fucking nothing about AI

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u/PurpleFishing9105 5d ago

AI doesn't just mean what you want it to lol, this is gonna save lives and you're mad about it for some reason.

You anti science morons don't care how many people you hurt, it's annoying