Get to folding those proteins AI! cracks whip

That's the real use of AI/ automation. So that people has more time to engage in more important things, like art and philosophy.

I think its providing real benefits in almost everywhere it's being applied

There are drawbacks, but even with those AI and more advanced learning models have a generally positive impact in the fields their being introduced in

To be clear, "AI" has been used for decades in life science. It's called Bioinformatics. The recent trend of thinking of "AI" as generative language/image models is leaking into some clickbaity journalism here.

This is a cool innovation, but the computer science in use here is not new and has nothing to do with the recent explosion of generative AI models

Nah, A.I. can provide benefits in literally all areas of knowledge. I'm hopeful that one day humanity itself will be fully phased out in favor of artificial life.