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> I think it's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like aging, cancer, Alzheimer's. Machine learning is certainly a extremely handy in tac
by khaled_ismaeel 1y ago
> I think it's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like aging, cancer, Alzheimer's.
Machine learning is certainly a extremely handy in tacking these issues, thinking of breakthroughs like AlphaFold and similar. However, I'd like to push against your take:
1. There already are tremendous developments happening in those fronts you mentioned. Praising AI as "our only chance" is quite a stretch and possibly even a harmful statement, considering how severely under-funded these research projects are.
2. It seems to me the poem is more about LLMs/glorified chat bots than general machine learning. In that context, I wouldn't consider them as super useful in Alzheimer's research, certainly not "our only chance".
- bufferoverflow 1y ago1. You need to read carefully. I didn't say it was our only chance. I said it was our only chance to do it quickly, I even emphasized the word. I'm sure humanity can grind through these hard problems in hundreds or thousands of years without AIs. But I would prefer to be alive, so there's urgency.