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In response to
"I'm annoyed at what they've wrought on the world & am rooting for them to collapse into scandal and government excise -- nm"
by
Beryllium
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The science? The field of inquiry? has benefits. It's the flashy and supposedly monetizeable stuff that's an issue -- (edited)
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jun 18 '24, 11:44
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I contributed some low level compute cycles via my PS3 and PC to the whole folding project which was attempting to brute force protein folding and I think others did as well. All that did was figure out a handful of proteins.
AI based methods figured it out.
This is just one example.
The other one that I know of is that CERN is using AI and Machine Learning to sort out the insane amount of data that their particle collisions generate but there doesn't seem to be a simple summary of their work.
So while the very public LLM and Generative stuff definitely needs rails. IMO, we definitely don't need a ban on AI as to me that's like banning telescopes cause they can be used for peeping. Ok, that's pretty clumsy but I don't think it would be far off from the initial language that would be used by lawmakers as they'd lump AI in general with the LLM and goofy graphics stuff.
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I think my argument might be summarized as we should quit trying to use 'AI' for stuff that humans can do and focus on stuff that we can't do like figuring out how to fold proteins or how to analyze datasets that are magnitudes in size past what we can imagine, let alone comprehend. Leave the writing and art to humans.
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