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Transformer architectures similar to those used in LLMs are the foundation for AlphaFold 2 and medical vision models like Med-ViT. There's not really a clean way to distinguish "good" and "bad" AI by architecture. It's all about the use.
It's a tool. There aren't any good and bad hammers. Someone using a hammer to build affordable housing is doing a good thing. Someone using a hammer to kill kittens is doing a bad thing. It's not the fucking hammer's fault, but it's also not surprising that if 95% of the people buying hammers are using them to kill kittens and post videos on instagram about it to the point that manufacturers start designing their hammers with specialized kitten-killing features and advertising them for the purpose non-stop, people will get pretty fucking angry at all the stores and peddlers selling these fucking hammers on every street corner.
And that's where we are with "generative AI" right now. Which is not really AI, by the way, none of this has any "intelligence" of any kind, that's just a very effective sales tactic for a fundamentally really interesting but currently badly abused technology. It's all just the world's largest financial grift. It's not the technology's fault.