• gedfromgont@piefed.ca
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    1 day ago

    Technically this probably isn’t AI but rather ML (machine learning) which is something that made great strides in science already in the past decade or so. E.g. alphafold, a program to predict folding of protein sequences predates all LLM crap and has become a cornerstone of anything protein expression.

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      18 hours ago

      Nah, Alphafold came out at about the same time (actually a little after) AI image generation. They all came out together because the same hand full of people were working on them. They’re also all very similar algorithms; though, I don’t know where you want to draw the line between AI and machine learning – those are just two terms for the same thing to me.

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        13 hours ago

        So when I talk about LLM, I mean in first line ChatGPT since it was the big event bringing LLMs to the public.

        Alphafolds first version came out in 2018, ChatGPT was only released in 2022. I don’t know where AI image generation comes into this, but that wasn’t my point anyway.

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          10 hours ago

          Idk, there was a lot of hype about image generation at about the same time there was hype about Alphafold, and I bought a new computer immediately for Alphafold. My Amazon history says 2023, so 2022 might be about right. I can tell you the hype for Alphafold wasn’t until after COVID regardless of when the first version might have technically come out.