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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The type of AI that researchers are building to try cure diseases are not LLMs. So not the stuff that is running behind these kind of tech for games.

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  or a silly, halfwit race to build out the infrastructure because they’re smoking their own product could crash the economy.

  You’re only seeing the upsides - make nifty pictures, ai music, whatever - because the entire shitshow is a free or exceptionally underpriced preview of what’s to come. while everyone from google to grok to your mom fails to find a way to actually profit off of it all when they have to figure the costs of the water, power, training data, lawsuits and other shit into the actual equation it blows up.

  These aren’t my ideas - please, take a break from your preconceptions and read:

  futurism.com/data-centers-financial-bubble

  zdnet.com/…/todays-ai-ecosystem-is-unsustainable-…

  www.dailykos.com/…/-Why-The-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst?…

  www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

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• itkovian@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where is the idea that LLMs will ever to curing diseases coming from? What is the possible mechanism? LLMs generate text from probability distributions. There is no reason to trust their output because they don’t have built-in concept of true or false. When one cannot judge the quality of the output, how can one reliably use it as a tool for any purpose, let alone scientific research?

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are other general AIs that can look over imaging like cat scans and in some situations catch things a doctor can’t.

    There are also ones that can simulate drug interactions with the body and can be used to model creating novel drugs for treatments.

    These are not LLMs though.

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