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It's possible if the problem has a narrow solution space that's well defined, something like alpha fold but otherwise it's not yet currently possible to sufficiently replace workers, we don't actually have AGI yet, much less AGI that costs less than a flesh and blood employee.
No, that's just plain wrong. Alphafold is not an llm, it is not replacing any jobs. Nobody's job was folding proteins in every conceivable way. Without a doubt in my mind, alphafold is creating additional lines of research, which means more researchers, more grants, more papers to write. Nothing like that is happening with generative ai, and the continued insistence from ai bros that talking to a chatbot should also count as science is driving me up a wall.
Never claimed it was and LLM. People's job was through multiple means trying to discover the shape of proteins. There are a lot of ways to apply NN to take over labor people were doing before. Particularly with general purpose robotics but many other nonphysical tasks can similarly be automated, like searching a solution space.
The conflation of neural networks and large language models is the most common way I see people claim talking to chatbots as science. You know damn well what 'ai' means in this context: the article is about chatbots, not NN in general, certainly not robotics.
Oh, and they were replaced? The neural network publishes papers now? That's ridiculous. It's a tool that unlocks new science, no researcher is throwing up their hands like 'oh, whelp, guess alphafold is the future, no need for me anymore!'
Gish gallop response, just as I expected.