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Yeah there are definitely some cool uses, it seems like analysis/processing uses are pretty good, but generative ones are not.
The AI models that are used for molecular research are literally remaking our understanding of biology and medicine. I don't know why the big AI corporations don't point to that as an example of the benefits of AI. I guess cause that doesn't help them to exclude the proletariat from their profits.
probably it has problems of its own, and it will likely require a scientist to fact checks any thing the AI makes, it also depends if a journal is finicky enough to accept a paper that the experiments are done by AI. pretty niche, i doubt its using the commercial ones like OPENAI/ GOOGLES,,or other. its probably made for that specific purpose of that research field. a small subset of users, so unlikely to generate profit that way because thats asmall group of "customers using a niche AI, and likely its proprietary to the UNiversity that made it anyways.
It definitely has its own problems, and the results are thoroughly investigated by the researchers. But yeah it's very niche, however most models are freely shared between teams. I mean it has to be to get through peer review.