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AI used to speed up search for motor neurone disease drugs (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Researchers hope the work will help identify affordable, effective drugs to treat conditions like MND.

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

Is there a reason to believe they don't use the same models? You wouldn't necessarily need something specialized for 'curating data'. The drug identification stuff is definitely separate though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    For text classification? They might. There's a million things they could be using. I've definitely seen just throwing ChatGPT at text and asking it to generate a label for tagging and classification, but its much cheaper to use fine tuned Roberta or some other encoder-only model. Both are LLMs using a transformer architecture, just one is more what we're familiar with the other is more meant for text classification tasks.

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