| ▲ | dsign 2 hours ago | |
I feel somebody better qualified should write a comprehensive review of how these models can be used in biology. In the meantime, here are my two cents: - the models help to retrieve information faster, but one must be careful with hallucinations. - they don't circumvent the need for a well-equipped lab. - in the same way, they are generally capable but until we get the robots and a more reliable interface between model and real world, one needs human feet (and hands) in the lab. Where I hope these models will revolutionize things is in software development for biology. If one could go two levels up in the complexity and utility ladder for simulation and flow orchestration, many good things would come from it. Here is an oversimplified example of a prompt: "use all published information about the workings of the EBV virus and human cells, and create a compartimentalized model of biochemical interactions in cells expressing latency III in the NES cancer of this patient. Then use that code to simulate different therapy regimes. Ground your simulations with the results of these marker tests." There would be a zillion more steps to create an actual personalized therapy but a well-grounded LLM could help in most them. Also, cancer treatment could get an immediate boost even without new drugs by simply offloading work from overworked (and often terminally depressed) oncologists. | ||
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| ▲ | bonsai_spool an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> I feel somebody better qualified should write I hate to be rude in a setting like this, but please at least research the things you're sure about/prognosticating on. > the same way, they are generally capable but until we get the robots and a more reliable interface between model and real world, one needs human feet (and hands) in the lab. Honestly, the kinds of labs where 'bioweapons' would be made are the least dependent on human intervention. You need someone to monitor your automated cell incubating system, make sure your pipetting / PCR robots are doing fine and then review the data. ---- What do you are you trying to achieve in your example? This is all gobbldey-gook for someone who actually sees real, live cancer patients. | ||