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This article describes what ive been thinking about for the last week. How will these billions of investments by big tech actually create something that is significantly better than what we have today already?

There are major issues ahead and im not sure they can be solved. Read the article.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My company is in AI. One of our customers pays for systems capable of the hard computational work to design the drugs to treat Parkinson's. This is the only newly possible with the newest technology.

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

    This is acutally one of the most promising applications - AI can screen millions of potential drug compounds and predict protein interactions in hours instead of months, which is why we're seeing breakthroughs in neurodegenerative disease research.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's probably Machine Learning, the root category of tools and the origin of LLMs, not Large Language Models themselves we call 'AI'. These have many applications they are efficient at gradually explored from the 80s I believe, while the AI boom involving Google, Meta, OpenAI and others is about generalistic chatbots that are bad in just about everything they used in. I'm putting that distinction not because I'm an ass, but because I don't want the hype wave to get more credibility on the back of real scientifical and technological progress.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It depends, if they're use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same "AI wave" thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.

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