• Ech@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    “Cure cancer or whatever”

    Fuck all the way off, Altman. You oversell a text generator. You’re not getting a Nobel prize for that.

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      6 days ago

      Kissinger got a Nobel Peace Prize for napalming infants. I wouldn’t put it past them to give Altman one for using more electricity than most countries on glorified autocomplete.

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      6 days ago

      To be fair, mRNA vaccines are largely possible due to AI, and not just any AI, but similar approaches that LLMs use. They took NLP (natural language processing) concepts, which were the precursor to today’s LLMs, to generate a bunch of possibilities. That’s how we were able to get COVID-19 vaccines so quickly, and we’re likely to use that for a ton of other diseases going forward.

      It’s not that far-fetched that similar techniques could be used to cure cancer.