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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We are closer to making horny chatbots than a superintelligence figuring out a cure for cancer.

Actually, if the latter wins, would that super AI win a Nobel prize?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It would probably go to whoever uses it to find the cure... And to none of the authors who wrote the data that it was trained on

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To be fair, a better pattern finder could indeed lead to better ways of curing cancer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This year has just been a constant stream of examples why capitalism is stupid. Machine learning has a lot of utility in medical research. Imagine if it were deployed in such a way to benefit society instead of to maximize techbro's profit.

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