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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by TaupeRanger on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:17PM (#36246263)
And yet, even after 5 years there's no sign of any real, meaningful drugs, even just Phase I trials. In 5 - 10 years (which will be 10 to 15 years after AlphaFold was released) I am willing to bet real money that there will be zero drugs discovered by AlphaFold that meet the following criteria:

1) The drug couldn't have been discovered without AlphaFold 2) It has been proven to reduce all cause mortality (the thing real patients actually care about) in a randomized controlled clinical trial BETTER than the prior standard of care (or significantly more cheaply, or with significantly reduced side effects)

Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by hugopenmir on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:32PM (#36262939)
Send them your resume or ideas about how to do it faster and better, it could help !
Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by TaupeRanger on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:41PM (#36263894)
There is no way to do it faster or better with these techniques. It is a waste of money - that's the entire point. My advice would be: stop wasting time, money, and human brainpower. Go off and try entirely new approaches to AI that might actually work!
Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by chpatrick on Saturday June 10, 2023 @08:35AM (#36269957)
This is such a bizarre take. AlphaFold is faster and better - but it still takes years to develop anything in the life sciences.

It's like pointing to special relativity in 1905 and saying it'll never be useful for anything.