• medgremlin@midwest.social
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    13 days ago

    They don’t use the generative models for this. The AI’s that do this kind of work are trained on carefully curated data and have a very narrow scope that they are good at.

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      13 days ago

      That brings up a significant problem - there are widely different things that are called AI. My company’s customers are using AI for biochem and pharm research, protein folding, and other science stuff.

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        12 days ago

        My company cut funding for traditional projects and has prioritized funding for AI projects. So now anything that involves any form of automation is “AI”.

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        I do have a tech background in addition to being a medical student and it really drives me bonkers that we’re calling these overgrown algorithms “AI”. The generative AI models I suppose are a little closer to earning the definition as they are black-box programs that develop themselves to a certain extent, but all of the reputable “AI” programs used in science and medicine are very carefully curated algorithms with specific rules and parameters that they follow.