[HN Gopher] The End of Disease
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       The End of Disease
        
       Author : m_c
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-04-21 17:37 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | pmags wrote:
       | As it relates to biomedicine, the AI community is increasingly
       | toeing the "snake oil" line.
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       | Yes, machine learning/AI is powerful, but pie in the sky
       | predictions such as the "end of disease" probably hurt more than
       | help in the long run.
        
       | randcraw wrote:
       | > (1) the huge majority of what people are calling AI these days
       | is in fact machine learning. [...]
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       | > (2) machine learning does not create any new knowledge. It
       | rearranges information you have already obtained [...]
       | 
       | I do wish more folks who hype AI/ML as a means to revolutionize
       | science would acknowledge point #2 and address it before their
       | next clueless claim. Until ML can propose novel scientific
       | hypotheses AND validate them, AI will continue to advance ONLY
       | technology, as a tool does, but not science, as a theory does.
        
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