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Re:Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker C... by direwolf20 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:41PM (#50416396)
They are different ball games. Math proofs can be brute forced by a computer, in principle, but that takes too long so we need good heuristics. Drugs can't be discovered on a computer, even in principle - you always need real-world feedback.

Consider the difference between asking an LLM to translate a poem, and asking it whether my front door is open or closed. No amount of clever computation will make it reliably answer the latter.

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