In Phase I medicine trials, AI-discovered molecules are more successful than historic industry averages. In software it can be very useful writing functions, creating unit tests and in general freeing up coders to focus on the more interesting work. There is a baby in that bath water.
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Also like, using it to write *anything* means spending your time making sure it didn't fuck up
You can't treat "generative AI" as a synechdote for the wider set of machine learning. It's a cul de sac, astonishingly worse than GIGO - quality goes in, quality-shaped garbage comes out, misleading until examined.
Scientists know not to just trust what the AI suggests. They test and often improve the molecules before exposing humans to the output.
Tech bros just barf extremely dumb LLMs all over our lives.
Now, I am just an anonymous schmo
and here https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpt.3542
There are definitely useful applications of AI/ML methods in biology, but there is a lot of hype, too.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964462400134X
You are describing iterative AI. Hugely helpful at quickly exploring design spaces to find improvements.
Iterative AI is very different from the current fad of generative AI, which is largely slop.
RegEx is especially easy to be screwed up by generative AI.
There's no regex or SQL that AI could do better than a proper Google search and a manual.
You're correct that a lot of coders don't like generative ai. I don't claim it is a panacea, but personally find it useful and believe it is going to be getting much better.
I wouldn't personally use Copilot for more than writing unit test templates, which are the most boring dev tasks.
And GenAI for summarising texts or rewriting them in a certain format.
Okay, but by a generative LLM? Or via iterative machine learning?
Same with code, imagine just generating something, making sure it compiles and assuming it's correct because it compiled.
That's what they're telling consumers AI can do.
Why do LLMs expect publishers to?
come back when it doesn't boil the oceans doing so
bit like saying some of the people on cruise ships deserve a holiday, so ignore the pollution otherwise