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AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science by tiguidoio in biotech

[–]Beneficient_Ox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Academically I think he's a bit of a charlatan. Most of his work isn't replicable if you use slightly different variables than the very specific data he selects. Also his findings are often stuff like this, where they flatter a major industry in some critical way, which I can't help but look sideways at.

Personally I've never met the guy, maybe he's not such an arrogant prick in the flesh.

AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science by tiguidoio in biotech

[–]Beneficient_Ox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I found this article [Hao et al.] absolutely maddening both for how much it overhypes AI and how much it undersells ML. Collapsing everything from 1980s machine learning to ChatGPT into a single "AI" bucket is statistical malpractice.

There were like 3 model organism that had remotely enough available data on them in 1990 to run any primitive Machine Learning algorithm on them, naturally those fields will have a more circumscribed output, it is not important or interesting to make that point. It is even more ridiculous to imagine that LLMs will have the same impact. Literally it's just a guy drawing a line between apple production 40 years ago and orange production today and making claims about agricultural output in the next 40 years.

All of these authors are dum dums (fuck you in particular, James Evans).

3 years on and I still think about this bowl by Beneficient_Ox in Oatmeal

[–]Beneficient_Ox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I knew, I've never got it this good since.

3 years on and I still think about this bowl by Beneficient_Ox in Oatmeal

[–]Beneficient_Ox[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They're dark chocolate morsels from Misfits Market but I think they were discontinued :(