Why aren't we using LLM's to chemically redesign old drugs?

3 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by techteach00

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3 Comments

ksaj

10 minutes ago

I would go one step further with "Name and describe a few candidates that conform to this recommendation" and watch it enthusiastically hallucinate candidates.

I believe it'll get there one day. But it's pretty clear we're still at "incredible toy" stage.

rationalist

7 hours ago

I imagine people are, they're just doing it in their research labs under confidentiality.

verdverm

2 hours ago

LLMs are not the right type of Ai, look to AlphaFold and the mega dataset of protein folds they have made available for science. Things are happening, it will take many decades for all the insights and new ways of doing medicine to be mined and turned into effective treatments.

ChatGPT (llm) is definitely not the way, it is a sycophant and will tell you anything is a good idea.