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>"how is cancer research useful?"
Kinda seems like you're trolling but I'll bite. Not a scientist so I'm paraphrasing, but basically the reason why cancer is so difficult to beat is that it mutates from your body's own cells. You have to catch it as soon as possible right after the mutation starts. What doctors used to do is have to take each separate case and check out how the cells mutated, compare it to others, see if there's patterns. Now you can just feed as many cases as possible into an AI and it recognizes patterns humans might not have found for decades. We find out what causes the cancer, and we can get to work on curing it.
I'm not vouching for the creative quality of AI here, I also don't believe it could generate anything original or creative. But it's fantastic at shit that doesn't need any thinking, just pattern recognition. Literally a "put a billion monkeys behind typewriters and see if they write Shakespeare" scenario. Except now these monkeys look at each other and learn from each other. Add a human giving positive feedback when they come close to Shakespeare, now you got deep learning.
Specific examples: research (check all recorded information and give a summary), vibe coding (write pages of semi-working code in 2 seconds), AI agents (booking flights, hotels, restaurants, giving you an itinerary), algorithms, (ads, social media conent, shopping recommendations).
It's like every person in the world now has access to a junior assistant basically for free even if they can't afford the education.
Pretty much it just saves time. For normies we're talking seconds, on a large scale (especially as AI starts getting more advanced) we're talking decades. But ask it to do something creative and yeah, slop.
