New 'AI-designed' vaccine tested on humans that can work on ALL types of Covid : nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] Wimopy@feddit.uk 33 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

GB News... Yuck. Though good job, looks like the BBC has almost the same article.

Either way, looking at the actual published paper, they used DIOSynVax's tech. No mention of LLMs or AI anywhere. All I can find is "computational biology" and "self-improving algorithms".

In other words: this is using the current genAI boom to hype up/get clicks on something almost certainly designed using well-established machine learning algorithms. Oniony headline I guess, but otherwise it's just bad journalism in my opinion.

God I fucking hate the way the term AI is used for everything now. Usually it means an LLM or some other form of generative model in laymen's circles, but people so happily mix it up with other tools.

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[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

When in hear AI I usually just think neural network. NNs are fantastic in many science applications such as protein folding and categorising tissue samples. People really should not conflate LLM slop with the broader use of neural nets.

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[–] Wimopy@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

I wish that was the case for me. Unfortunately, even when I get internal emails about AI in science events at best it's unclear. But often it's generative AI. At this point I'm kinda just forced to assume it means genAI unless stated otherwise.

Though I guess part of that is that most research groups will specify the kind of machine learning they use. So if it's left as AI then it's usually generative.

Outside of that though it is true that (as seen in OP) most news articles will just label any model as AI, diluting the term entirely. And it's probably a neural network if it's from a reputable research group (such as in this case: a University of Cambridge group running actual human trials).

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago

You're right. I'll try to keep it more casual and light next time. Thank you for pointing that out and keeping me on track, I really appreciate it.

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[–] Sheepy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately news sites and AI companies do everything they can to conflate the two as much as possible.