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Real Science Is Harder Than Benchmarks: University students find that AI isn’t the cure-all in drug discovery, as AI isn’t as capable as human researchers for drug discovery and development (news.northeastern.edu)
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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Machine learning is widely applied and useful in drug discovery.

A couple years ago the Nobel prize was given out for that.

The approaches they tested, which use LLMs, were not satisfactory for their objectives.

[–] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 minutes ago

I'm aware, yes. That was my point