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AI is not just LLMs. Much of AI is machine control, and bioinformatics.llms are the foam on top of the ocean.
I'm aware, and I wish people were more clear about the difference, but its LLMs that are driving these insane buildouts, not the other disciplines. This article is clearly talking about the LLM "AI", not bioinformatics or anything that may actually be fruitful.
The LLM companies like to claim they'll solve cancer, but its all snake oil hedged on a mythical AGI popping up and fixing everything.
Yeah, but the current hype is around LLM, the other kinda of AI are the same as they were before this started.
Alphafold almost certainly benefited from genAI research, since 2 and 3 are somewhat genAI inspired architectures, they use their own versions of transformers and also diffusion