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      10 hours ago

      Have you considered that the scientist maybe works for a good organization that can afford him 4 desks that look different?

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      8 hours ago

      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.

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        They aren’t using chatbots to do it. It’s almost a completely different technology.

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          Exactly. Things in advanced analtyics or ML or whatever are totally smeared over with a broad brush, they give everything the landlord special.

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          It more or less is a different technology in the same way a arquebus and an M16 are different technologies, same principles different execution.

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        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. LLM and diffusion image generators, meanwhile, have no beneficial purpose.

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          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.

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                “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