Can a single AI model advance any field of science?

Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by badgersnake on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @04:20PM (#43765867)

AlphaFold already did. Or do we only count AI if it’s an LLM now?

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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by analog31 on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:21PM (#43766853)

And going even further, curve fitting.

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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by rtkwe on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @08:39PM (#43767620)

I'm all for a renarrowing of the use of AI to no longer just cover any machine learning algorithm to be honest. It was a really annoying feature of the 2010s that any kind of machine learning application got the hype word du jour slapped on it.

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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by anon7000 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:26AM (#43768601)

The problem is it is just ML all the way down… I mean even AlphaFold used transformer models, I thought.

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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by rtkwe on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @02:30PM (#43775209)

At least LLMs act somewhat like an AI rather than just working in a singular hyper specific domain like so many ML projects that can only do one extremely specific thing. You're right it's still /just/ ML underneath but I'm still happy AI as a term is shrinking a little.

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