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> The study would not have been possible without the use of artificial intelligence to weed through dozens of proteins in a class called prohormones. I see we’
by vlovich123 2y ago
> The study would not have been possible without the use of artificial intelligence to weed through dozens of proteins in a class called prohormones.
I see we’re being fast and loose with the term “artificial intelligence”?
- cosmie 2y agoCould be that they relied on AI to generate the gnarly regex ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- ddalex 2y agoAny sufficiently advanced regex is indistinguishable from AI.
- wslh 2y agoEven simple regex ones, since we don't know if they were created by a human or an AI.
- readthenotes1 2y agoI'm trying to think of a funny way to cite Clark's Law, but failing...
- Izkata 2y agoRegexes occasionally get called "black magic", and there is is an inverse of Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
- xeonmc 2y agoI think you meant “any sufficiently commoditized magic is indistinguishable from technology”, or “any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.”
- J_Shelby_J 2y agoWith enough if statements, you could create a LLM.
- jajko 2y agoI am still waiting for an LLM trained to focus on effin' regexes and their variants like sed, somebody please do a page with ads for this and you will have a nice little side income and warm fuzzy feeling on top of it. Natural language -> fully working one, I don't mean some email validators but way more complex stuff. Although, I've recently had a case which was too much even for regexes in any form or spec, then sort of grammar-based parser needed to be done from scratch.
- vlovich123 2y agoI haven’t had the need for super complicated regexes, but ChatGPT and Claude both worked fine to generate a regex to extract markdown code blocks.
- AlwaysRock 2y agoAI is the new, “Algorithm”. It is an overly broad term that basically means, “Technology” to people who use it.
- swat535 2y agoFor non-technical people, terms like Machine Learning, Algorithm, Automation, AI, Neural Networks and 'Magical Powers' are synonymous.. Journalists, marketing teams, and executives choose whichever term generates the most hype and clicks.
- RandallBrown 2y agoI like to describe my job as a software engineer as "wizardry" to people. With the way LLMs are writing code, it's only getting closer to writing actual spells.
- Terr_ 2y ago> "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." — Thomas Szasz
- ahazred8ta 2y ago"Like a magic crystal mirror, My computer lets me know Of the other world within it Where my body cannot go / The computer is a gateway To a world where magic rules Where the only law is logic Webs of words the only tools" https://mindstalk.net/filk/world.html https://mindstalk.net/filk/world.html
- hahajk 2y agoMy understanding is that the original use of AI was to describe algorithms that solved complicated problems, but only sometimes, and usually through heuristics. As opposed to provably correct algorithms like Dijkstra's. I think that's how we still use it.
- sporkland 2y agoIt is a somewhat though provoking question for me where you LLM's fall in automata theory? Are they non-deterministic finite automatons which would make regex's a cousin? Or does it require pushdown automata levels of capability?
- scarmig 2y agoRegexes were invented by Kleene in 1951, to describe McCulloch-Pitts neural nets. So, artificial intelligence! https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2008/RM704.pdf https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand...
- nextos 2y agoJokes aside regexes being AI, lots of protein motifs can be elegantly described by simple regexes. And their classification performance is sometimes perfect. See the Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource: http://elm.eu.org/elms http://elm.eu.org/elms.
- escapecharacter 2y agounfortunately, if you do anything computational, when you need to explain it to a journalist/public audience/young person you want to hire/investor/trendchasing early user, you are incentivized to call it "AI".