Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/30/google-kills-alphafold-so-much-for-ai-curing-cancer/

not SAYING that AlphaFold cures cancer, BUT,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiEVOSTbN4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260730-google-kills-alphafold-so-much-for-ai-curing-cancer - podcast

time: 5 min 40 sec

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5 Comments

diz@awful.systems · 17 pts · 16d (3 replies)

Who needs cures when you can instead simply replace doctors with chatbots?

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 9 pts · 15d

With personalized pricing, to boot.

terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 16d

s/chatbots/sexbots/

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 15d

Grandma's dead from a preventable disease but the Dorito's ad on the Smart TV customized itself for me to include her making a quip about how good the new Cool Ranch Blastz flavor is.

BlueMonday1984@awful.systems · 11 pts · 15d

(from the youtube comments)

shot:

One of the lesser discussed issues with the generative AI hype is that it put every single deep learning application under scrutiny. They tend to hide behind the positive uses of deep learning whenever generative AI is criticized, as if medicine research and the misinformation generator cannot be separated. "Nuclear power is impossible unless we are allowed to use nukes" type of argument

chaser:

Alphafold was a really interest project. It was not magic but had some utility. Now all remaining AI projects are lying plagiarism machines.

AI is officially a pseudoscience now.