| ▲ | mhb 9 hours ago |
| Imagine if AI cures cancer. |
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| ▲ | AlotOfReading 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Let's also imagine an alternative reality where some reasonable percentage of the $2.5T in current year AI spending was instead invested in the "general intelligence" researchers we already have for the same purpose. I think it's a pretty reasonable expectation that 1) they'd probably make more progress and 2) that money would help a lot more people in the process (through jobs and economic activity). |
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| ▲ | squidsoup 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You can imagine all you want, but my understanding is there is no credible evidence that scaling LLMs will result in true AGI. |
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| ▲ | mhb 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Obviously there's no "evidence". Why would you even think we need AGI? But I'm happy to hear your reasoning if you were one of the few/only? people who imagined that software that could predict the next word could do what it now is doing. |
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| ▲ | bluescrn 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| An already-ageing population living even longer while nobody wants kids anymore? |
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| ▲ | dghlsakjg 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Am I correctly reading your argument that you are pro cancer for the purposes of demographic balance? |
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| ▲ | elwebmaster 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You don't have to imagine, it will hallucinate you a slop with full confidence every time. |
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| ▲ | duskwuff 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I've already seen at least one person who was pretty sure that the preprint paper they co-authored with AI (read: AI wrote for them) was going to cure cancer and make them billions of dollars. There was only one problem. The paper jumped straight from "this paper will show how our new treatment could cures cancer forever" to "as you can see, these results clearly show that our treatment cures cancer" - with neither any actual results nor any specifics on the treatment. And I don't just mean that the paper didn't go into details; writing the paper was the full extent of their "research". | | | |
| ▲ | SideQuark 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | AI was used fundamentally for COVID vaccine development. AI is used for research in all modern drugs. It’s a certainty if cancer gets cured AI will have played a fundamental role since it’s already fundamental to precursors. |
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| ▲ | akomtu 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Curing cancer isn't profitable. But even if someone tries to mix AI and biotech, the result will be a dangerous medical slop. |
