Yes they are? Literally have to listen to a friend bitch about them every single day. She's a biochemist. They do literally use specialized AI models, general LLMs and and a number of other transformer based technologies.

And while the specialized ones are useful the stupid chat bot ones are fucking over processes all over the place.

I’m not such why you’d utter such a lie so confidently. This reeks of fear, ignorance or a mix of both.

I think it's more that the way the chatbots work is the same. They assign a bunch of numbers to tokens, and the numbers determine how interrelated different tokens are. You put in a bunch of tokens and then it spits out what it thinks the next one should be based on all the interrelatedness numbers and some math things like transformers, and the math things have knobs on them to determine how strong they are. It doesn't matter if the tokens are words in a sentence or peptides in a protein. The underlying technology is the same.

This is an exciting use for a tool that I mostly despise for probably all the same reasons you do.

No, chatbots are not used in medical or scientific research.

So you're a scientist?

I use LLMs every day, they search deep into supplemental data and manuscripts that would take months to sift through. Can't find specific information, reagents or data using title and abstract searches.

LLMs can be useful tools, but this entire thread is people with bullshit jobs scared of being replaced by an algorithm because they know they have a bullshit job.