AlphaFold delivered medical breakthroughs without a quasi-sentient model roaming the web
granawkins · x · 2026-09-11
The author argues that AlphaFold enabled huge breakthroughs in medicine without granting a quasi-sentient text generator free rein of the internet — a pointed critique suggesting specialized scientific models have proven their worth, implicitly questioning the necessity of the current general-purpose LLM race.
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