• Prathas@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I meant that I thought they were merging the two if Gemini could simply do what AlphaFold had been doing.

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      Gemini is a completely different project.

      The term “AI” is rather overloaded these days.

      AlphaFold uses a combination of machine learning and physics simulations to predict the shape of a protein given its chemical formula.

      Gemini is a Large Language Model which uses machine learning to predict text completion.

      They both use “machine learning” but the machine learning models are wildly different. Machine learning is a technique that’s basically a fancy curve fitting approach. The curve AlphaFold is trained to mimic maps chemical formulas to shapes, while the curve Gemini mimics maps a text input to probabilities for predictions of the next letter(s).