• MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yeah machine learning for medical research has been around for a lot longer than LLMs. LLMs do not do medical research, they are just really expensive and fancy “next word” auto-correct generators.

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      6 days ago

      I’d argue they made scentific research harder due to the many fake papers you can find online

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      5 days ago

      I remember way back when with the Folding at Home project. That’s a type of machine learning distributed. People happily contributed their computer time. Hell, there were contests around how much compute time a particular group could give.