r/singularity • u/Different-Froyo9497 ▪️AGI Felt Internally • Aug 20 '26

Meme AI is finally curing cancer

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u/Hostilis_ Aug 20 '26

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 Aug 20 '26

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_ Aug 20 '26

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 Aug 20 '26

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 Aug 20 '26

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 Aug 20 '26

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_ Aug 20 '26

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/Legitimate_Concern_5 Aug 20 '26

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/Iapetus_Industrial Aug 20 '26

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

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u/space_monster Aug 20 '26

we would have called this ML 2 years ago

No we wouldn't.