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.