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So where's that miraculous cure, then?
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Their plagiarism machine can't even consistently render that guy's desk from panel to panel. Somebody's going to trust it to make drugs?
Ha and the posters and bottles. Maybe AI could be useful for generating spot the difference books.
But a bit boring when you can just circle the entire panel and get it right, no?
Have you considered that the scientist maybe works for a good organization that can afford him 4 desks that look different?
Ah, yes. Perhaps they are mounted on some manner of conveyor belt.
A rotating floor plate would probably be more efficient
Use ai to generate a build plan and BOM
I think you left an "O" off of your bill of materials, there.
There we go, some healthy heavy craziness to keep the crazy going, a crazy train if you will
Not sure why the organization would allow medicine-smashing man onto the premises though.
he’s the founder
I'm curious what purpose that clearly custom microscope has
That's the least realistic part of this
The kind of crappy art generation is vastly different than the types of AI used in drug discovery.
In fact drug discovery is a pretty good problem for AI to help solving.
They aren't using chatbots to do it. It's almost a completely different technology.
Exactly. Things in advanced analtyics or ML or whatever are totally smeared over with a broad brush, they give everything the landlord special.
It more or less is a different technology in the same way a arquebus and an M16 are different technologies, same principles different execution.
Yes, but the problem is that the techbros pushing crappy AI and text generation are doing so while disingenuously implying (or often outright stating) that their product is eventually going to revolutionize the world by also magically curing cancer or whatever the hell else if we provide them just one more datacenter, bro. Except that it categorically cannot.
Specialized machine learning tools are specialized tools for the specific clearly defined use cases for which they are designed and intended (edit). The commercial LLM and diffusion image generators, meanwhile, serve no beneficial purpose whatsoever other than burning electricity, spreading lies, and making people dumber.
I mean this is where we have to disagree, I think there are loads of benefits from the technologies. But capitalism is the wrong motivator... "How can we make money out of this?" don't make me puke. It should be free for all, to cure cancer, to decipher ancient languages, to model the climate etc.
How the fuck is an ass kissing chatbot going to help you model the climate?
Not everything is a fucking chat bot.
"AI", the way everybody uses it today, means "ass-kissing chatbot". That's what Jensen means, that's what Satya means, that's what the investors think it means, that's what the people reading scripts on the news mean. Oh, excuse me, I meant to say "super intelligence".
We have neural nets, machine learning, adaptive systems, automated translation, context completion, all kinds of terms for the stuff that actually does useful stuff.
That's not what the trillion dollars is getting spent on
There's no point having a discussions with people like me that are intractable when it comes to the technology and are acutely aware of the USA capitalist ruling class and the atrocities they commit and enable, with people that are unable and unwilling to understand what a model is, and are approaching computer science like a luddite.
The USA capitalists are having you lick their boots when you think that "AI" = ChatGPT. You're not 'chatting' with anything. You, me, and many others, are constantly falling for their marketing shit all the time. Don't bite!
If you can differentiate between a stack of PS3s that made a 'super computer' to try to predict what the weather will be tomorrow and the USA building a datacenter, poisoning your water, denying you electricity, stealing your capital, surveiling you, and influencing your decisions, then we can definitely sit together and use our brains to dismantle the infrastructure of oppression. Your enemy is not 'conversation simulators', its capitalism.
It's both, actually.
Oh fuck the ai got him
My first class in machine learning was in the 90s, I worked in a megacorp leading multiple teams of people whose primary job was training and running (pre-gpt) high throughput ML classifiers.
I worked with this shit to pay my mortgage and feed my kids, I was decent at it too. One of the guys I worked with came from Palantir.
Nobody called what we were doing AI, ever. There was money on the line, it wasn't something we could just halfass and appeal to the machine god for. We had angry customers when we fucked up.
Nobody was calling automated medical scans AI, nobody was calling dynamic annealing for searching a solution space AI. Nobody was calling climate modeling AI.
Calling all that preexisting and ongoing stuff AI feels like the branding exercise to me.