• dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    I’m kinda stoked by the tech as well and kinda understand how multiple LLMs can produce pretty novel ideas. I think it was in protein-mapping where I first heard of some breakthroughs.

    While I’m happy to hear your experience shows you otherwise, it feels like your advocating for the devil. We don’t want to get lost in an angsty anti-capitalist echochamber, but surely you can see how the comic is poking fun at our tendencies to very cleverly cause everything to turn to shit.

    I guess woosh means missing the point? You are right on an individual basis, but if you look at it in tendencies, you might see why your swings didn’t connect.

    • lets_get_off_lemmy@reddthat.com
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      14 hours ago

      Oh I completely agree that we are turning everything to shit in about a million different ways. And as oligarchs take over more, while AI is a huge money-maker, I can totally see regulation around it being scarce or entirely non-existent. So as it’s introduced into areas like the DoD, health, transportation, crime, etc., it’s going to be sold to the government first and it’s ramifications considered second. This has also been my experience as someone working in the intersection of AI research and government application. I immediately saw Elon’s companies, employees, and tech immediately get contracts without consultation by FFRDCs or competition by other for-profit entities. I’ve also seen people on the ground say “I’m not going to use this unless I can trust the output.”

      I’m much more on the side of “technology isn’t inherently bad, but our application of it can be.” Of course that can also be argued against with technology like atom bombs or whatever but I lean much more on that side.

      Anyway, I really didn’t miss the point. I just wanted to share an interesting research result that this comic reminded me of.