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I generally side with your skepticism, but there are verifiable domains with economic value such as drug discovery.

• flerovium114 16d ago
  Are LLMs doing drug discovery? To my knowledge, that’s all classic “machine learning”
  • setopt 16d ago
    Not yet, as far as I know, but perhaps someone will find a way to do that in the future. We're talking about the next two decades here, a lot can happen in that time. DNA itself can be thought of as a language which describes proteins, and I personally don't know enough about the limits of LLMs as a technology to claim that it can never be adapted to, say, do reverse translation from desired protein shapes into DNA sequences.
    • pixl97 16d ago
      This is why it's better to call the underlying technology transformers rather than 'language model'. It can make a model from anything you can digitize and is informational (random noise would not be informational for example). It's the relations between the bits of data that matters.