AlphaFold won a Nobel, yet LLMs cracking millennium problems are called button pushers
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-16
A pointed observation: AlphaFold's creators were celebrated with a Nobel Prize for protein folding progress, while LLM creators making progress on millennium problems are dismissed as button pushers and seen as damaging to the field — a double standard in how science values AI contributions.
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