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AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds

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"Hey...Crisper.GP...T...think...you've mixed up the genes for my ass and...elbows..."
"Oh, you're totally alright! I apologise about that. 😀"
- "Oh, you're totally alright! I apologise about that. 😀"
  Here your ass on your elbow like you asked
- To be honest you're probably better off just making a T-Rex from the start let it eat you and just get it over with.
Lol... people downvoting stanford university
Lemmy is a wild place.... left wing maga, i guess
- it's useless hype, "ai could do x one day" is speculation at best
- It says AI in the title. That's all information they need. Most people on social media don't think - they react.
  
  No I doesn't.
  The problem is the term AI has become so broadly used that it's become meaningless. There is a popular quote about how the quota doesn't want AI to replace artistic jobs, as if it will. As if generative AI and large language models and projects like this are the same.
  When the bubble bursts, (please let it be soon) we're still going to have all of the science AIs because those are actually useful. What we don't need is AI girlfriends.
What a shame that we have created a world where this will only benefit a wealthy minority.
I am asking that all the people doing this watch Jurassic Park at least once.
I'll let experts do their thing, but this kind of thing worries me. I never had "there is no singularity, AI just engineers a generic disease by accident and kills is all" on my bingo.
- This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.
  What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don't just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!
  
  Back in the day, I used to fold proteins at home.
- Eh. Read the book first.
- Of course the actual moral of Jurassic Park is have a well staffed IT team and not just one random guy who you under pay.
Machine learning sure, but an llm? For anything other then as a module to translate abstract data into words that just seem weird
- Well I'm sure you know more than the scientists at Stanford university.

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