• Xaphanos@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    How much is the cure/treatment for Parkinson’s worth? Or other intractable medical problems?

    What about a device able to manipulate the containment field of a fusion reactor?

    These are the reasons why everyone is buying the compute services - there are dozens of moonshot-grade problems that are suddenly possible to attempt. Many will fail, but whoever gets that one success will gain astronomical benefit.

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      9 days ago

      I’ll believe that these things are possible when there’s some empirical evidence that they are.

      Why don’t you buy my amazing car. Yes it looks like that car that your nan drives to the shops but actually it can fly and time travel as well.

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        9 days ago

        Those results are still tightly controlled by NDAs. They need time for FDA approval, patents, etc. Then time to get to market. These are not released in scientific papers anymore. It’s protected because it cost so much up front.

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        9 days ago

        AI is not just LLMs. Much of AI is machine control, and bioinformatics.llms are the foam on top of the ocean.

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      9 days ago

      AI has been mainstream for what, 4 years now?

      if AI had such powerful results for developing novel solutions to problems such as medicine or material science, why have we not seen major improvements in those sectors?

      the way AI is spoken about is that it’s “world impacting” and “sector disrupting”. the only disruption and impacts I’m seeing are in human rights violations, price gouging, privacy negation, and corruption.

      if these are the results after only 4 years, I can only logically assume it will only get worse with more time and support.

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        9 days ago

        The PC became mainstream in 1981. Why didn’t the Internet become big for another 10 years?

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          9 days ago

          bullshit. you’re talking about two different technologies.

          the PC didn’t promise to cure cancer. it promised to help you run your business more efficiently.