It's not gen ai. It's ai in the more traditional sense

Yeah, Protein design is absurdly complicated and time consuming. Collaborative computing programs like folding at home have helped a lot but its still like trying to find a grain of sand in a desert. Having a well tuned AI help narrow down what needs additional attention via other computer models or even moving past computer models is a reasonable use of a well tuned specific AI. Not these general purpose LLMs that just tell you what you want to hear.

I'm anti AI but i have to give it to the technology, for once, it's used for something good and for a task no one wanted to manually do, with incredible results

Until the sector is regulated i'll just say this never happened