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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I mean I hate AI in general.. but to be honest... assuming no one is stupid enough to bypass the trials etc... I'm all for it, 90% of these problems already exist in the existing system, who owns it, can a corporation charge us to death.

The only reasonable fear is, if they come out with more than they can develop trials for, and they lobby to lower standards in trials. Even that honestly is a more acceptable risk in the context of terminal diseases/severe cancers.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

Agreed, drug development is a very good use of AI.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There really needs to be a rhetorical distinction between regular machine learning and something like an llm.

I think people read this (or just the headline) and assume this is just asking grok "what interactions will my new drug flavocane have?" Where these are likely large models built on the mountains of data we have from existing drug trials

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

There’s only one way to solve all diseases.

Did they test this on Mars first?

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sure all the savings from accelerated/cheaper R&D will be passed on to the consumer…right?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

They will, just not in the US lol

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Lovely. Let me pencil “zombie apocalypse” back onto my 2026 BINGO card.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I think I lost neurons reading this. Other commenters in this thread had the resilience to explain what the problems with it are.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world -4 points 14 hours ago

Is this how we all get AIDS?