• CubitOom@infosec.pub
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    6 hours ago

    The race to have the magic box that tells you lies that you want to hear while also consuming incredible amounts of resources…why is this a race again?

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      2 hours ago

      The telling lies part is not good, but I think the dream of AI is a servant (or slave) with unlimited potential that can solve, until now, unsolvable problems. Cure for cancer, sure that will be $10k a pill. Eternal life? Sure that will be 1 million dollars a years for all eternity. Robot army to protect you? Top of the list.
      Question I have is, is the AI we see the same AI the teck bros see? Is there a public interface that is made to appear a little buffoonish so the masses can laugh it off, but the real interface is much much better?

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        Those things are being solved by other forms of AI, not LLMs. AlphaFold is about the most useful thing AI has done so far and it’s not a chatbot.

        We get access to entertainment AI, but there could be different forms of AI in use in medical science that have nothing to do with image or text generation.

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      Because it was a race for simulating more deadly nukes till now. But that got silly, so they need something new to compare their pp.

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      Have you considered that if the worlds two superpowers are dead certain on this being an important area that they are willing to throw coutless billions of investment into, that they might know more than you do?

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        Yeah. But then i remembered some history facts and how lobbying and vulture capital works and decided it unlikely.

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          You think venture capital dictates to the politburo what its priorities are in China?