They haven't done humanity a favor at all. The innovation that these LLMs have produced has been small. A few fun math theorems where the answer was gleaned from a pattern in the training data. Great,.but it doesn't change the world one bit.

That latest drug for pancreatic cancer? Yeah, all human. After the trillions already spent, AI hasn't come up with any new medications, no new inventions to save lives... Nothing

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thraway3837 3 hours ago | parent [-]

We're only a few years into it, and yet all generations of folks are using it for all kinds of things and getting joy out of it. That's positive impact. Even folks outside of tech are having fun with it. That is a positive change for humanity. Similar to Radio, TV, smartphones, internet, microwaves and PCs.

It's already being used in the medical field in many different ways, and I believe it will be able to fold new proteins to help make new drugs. It's coming.

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joshuastuden 3 hours ago | parent [-]

They already fold proteins with simulations.

Just because people are using it doesn't mean it's a net good. Lots of people use social media and that's just rotting brains and making people far more polarized than they ever were before.

It's use in medicine hasn't resulted in anything meaningful. Nobody's medical bill has gotten cheaper and nobody has lived longer or healthier because of anything AI did.

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astrange 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://www.the-scientist.com/chatgpt-and-alphafold-help-des...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.15204

> They already fold proteins with simulations.

I like how you're trying to argue with the Nobel committee here.

	▲	joshuastuden an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Did you read it? It just said AI assisted with the process. So did the Internet. AI didn't come up with the solution or even the idea. It simply helped prune the search space, which is valuable, but not worth the trillions of dollars invested and all the added CO2.