As a longtime researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology, for the past year I have been asked questions about the application of large language models and, more generally, AI in science. For example: “Since ChatGPT works so well, are we on the cusp of solving science with large language models?” or “Isn’t AlphaFold2 suggestive that the potential of AI in biology and science is limitless?” And inevitably: “Can we use AI itself to bridge the lack of data in the sciences in order to then train another AI?”
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Listgarten, J. The perpetual motion machine of AI-generated data and the distraction of ChatGPT as a ‘scientist’.
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