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And yet, human lives haven't improved one iota from it. What good is a technology if all it does is cause lots of citations and padding of researchers' CVs?
by TaupeRanger 4y ago
And yet, human lives haven't improved one iota from it. What good is a technology if all it does is cause lots of citations and padding of researchers' CVs?
- rsfern 4y agoThere’s a few drugs currently in clinical trials that used AlphaFold in the design pipeline, IIRC. So that is something.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y agoThat's what the OP is saying, right? That all these payoffs are currently in the future. Drugs in clinical trials, advances likely to have a transformative impact, etc etc. "AI" is ushering in a new era of stuff that may or may not happen in the future.
- TaupeRanger 4y agoYes, and I'm as hopeful as anyone that they will make real patients live longer and/or better. But to suggest that the tech is "ushering in" a revolution before any such studies have released their findings is just worthless noise. We have no idea if it will be a fantastic miracle or a useless diversion.