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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by caseyy on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:09PM (#43766776)
Yes. ML has advanced many fields related to modelling - meteorology, climate, molecular. Classification models have done much for genomics, particle physics, and other fields where experiments produce inhumane amounts of data.

DeepVariant, Enformer, ParticleNet, DeepTau, etc. are some well-known individual models that are advanced branches of science. And there are the very famous ones, like AlphaFold (Nobel in Chemistry 2024).

We need to think of AI not as a product (chats, agents, etc.), but as neural nets (AlexNet). Unfortunately, large companies are "chat-washing" these tremendously useful technologies.

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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by janalsncm on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:16PM (#43766820)
ML was used to sharpen the recent image of a black hole: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/63

ML is more of a bag of techniques that can be applied to many things than a pure domain. Of course you can study the properties of neural networks for their own sake but it’s more common as a means to an end.

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Re:Can a single AI model advance any field of science? by klysm on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:23PM (#43766865)
Surely they mean LLMs
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