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[โ€“] andallthat@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

LLMs can't do protein folding. A specifically-trained Machine Learning model called AlphaFold did. Here's the paper.

Developing, training and fine tuning that model was a research effort led by two guys who got a Nobel for it. Alphafold can't do conversation or give you hummus recipes, it knows shit about the structure of human language but can identify patterns in the domain where it has been specifically and painstakingly trained.

It wasn't "hey chatGPT, show me how to fold a protein" is all I'm saying and the "superhuman reasoning capabilities" of current LLMs are still falling ridiculously short of much simpler problems.

[โ€“] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

They can't bitcoin mine either, so technical feasibility wasn't the goal of my reply