Moderna's cancer vaccine wasn't discovered by AI, developed before GPT era
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-08-20
RuxandraTeslo clarifies that Moderna's cancer vaccine was not discovered by AI in the sense of current models like LLMs. It was developed in 2017, before the "GPT era," and likely used standard machine learning techniques. The author expresses excitement about AI in biology but worries that hype will lead to a post-truth era amid decreasing institutional trust.
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