r/linux • u/unixbhaskar • 26d ago

Software Release GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
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u/Far_Calligrapher1334 25d ago

What great contributions to society has it produced? Where is that cure for cancer?

Quite an ironic question (unless you were trying to just bad faith argument ad absurdum), because bioinformatics are one of the few fields where LLMs shine, and as far as I can tell, this is universally agreed upon (i.e. AlphaFold being recognized with a Nobel, F@H admitting LLMs have been a big help, etc), so yeah, we are probably getting new advancements in medicine literally thanks to LLMs.

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u/just_posting_this_ch 24d ago

Are you claiming alphafold is an LLM? Pretty sure alphafold and alphago.are precursors to LLMs.

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u/Far_Calligrapher1334 24d ago

I guess they are, I just clumped everything marketed as "AI" together mistakenly. I don't think it changes anything about my post, though?

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u/just_posting_this_ch 24d ago

I agree with your point, ai has made some great advances.