Re:I got fooled by AI-for-science hype–here's what it taught me
by rafaelmn on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @03:46AM
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This is another dimension of the problem - what's even considered AI ? AlphaFold is a very specialized model - and I feel the AI boom is driven by hypothesis that general models eventually outperform specialized ones given enough size/data/whatever.
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Re:I got fooled by AI-for-science hype–here's what it taught me
by _0ffh on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:50AM
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While I hate the apparent renaming of everything ML to "AI", things like AlphaFold would be "narrow AI".
As to the common idea of having to wait for general AI (AGI) to bring the gains, I have been quite sure since the start of the recent AI hype cycle that narrow AI will have silently transformed much of the world before AGI even hits the town.
Re:I got fooled by AI-for-science hype–here's what it taught me
by perlgeek on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @11:03AM
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In my head, I just substitute "AI" with "machine learning" or "statistics".
> and I feel the AI boom is driven by hypothesis that general models eventually outperform specialized ones given enough size/data/whatever.
I think in the sciences, I'd generally put my money on the specialized models.
I hope that the hype around AI makes it easier (by providing tooling, platforms, better algorithms, educational materials etc.) to train specialized models.
Kind of a trickle-down of hype money :-)