speak for yourself

Well, guess I know what I'm using ASI for.

Either (you genuinely belive) you are 18 (24, 36 does not matter) months away from curing cancer or you're not.

What would we as outsiders observe if they told their investors that they were 18 months away two years ago and now the cash is running out in 3 months?

Now I think the current iteration of AI is trying to get to the moon by building a better ladder, but what do I know.

There's not a single world where LLMs cure cancer, even if we decided to give the entirety of our energy output and water to a massive server using every GPU ever made to crunch away for months.

which fucking sucks, because AI was actually getting good, it could detect tumours, it could figure things fast, it could recognise images as a tool for the visually impaired...
But LLMs are non of those things. all they can do is look like text.
LLMs are an impressive technology, but so far, nearly useless and mostly a nuance.
- down in Ukraine we have a dozen or so image analysis projects that can't catch a break because all investors can think about are either swarm drones (quite understandably) or LLM nothingburgers that burn through money and dissipate every nine months. Meanwhile those image analysis projects manage to progress on what is basically scraps and leftovers.
- Multimodal LLMs are definitely a thing, though.
Not strictly LLMs, but neural nets are really good at protein folding, something that very much directly helps understanding cancer amount other things. I know an answer doesn't magically pop out, but it's important to recognise the use cases where NN actually work well.
- I'm trying to guess what industries might do well if the AI bubble does burst. I imagine there will be huge AI datacenters filled with so-called "GPUs" that can no longer even do graphics. They don't even do floating point calculations anymore, and I've heard their integer matrix calculations are lossy. So, basically useless for almost everything other than AI.
  One of the few industries that I think might benefit is pharmaceuticals. I think maybe these GPUs can still do protein folding. If so, the pharma industry might suddenly have access to AI resources at pennies on the dollar.
- But giving all the resources to LLMs slows/prevents those useful applications of AI.
And it's clear we're nowhere near achieving true AI, because those chasing it have made no moves to define the rights of an artificial intelligence.
Which means that either they know they'll never achieve one by following the current path, or that they're evil sociopaths who are comfortable enslaving a sentient being for profit.
- they’re evil sociopaths who are comfortable enslaving a sentient being for profit.
  i mean, look what is happening in the united states. that would be completely unsurprising to happen here.
- It's DEFINITELY both.
They sure do cure horny though.
There are tons of AIs besides the chat bots. There are definitely cancer hunter seekers.
- Good thing I said "LLM" not "AI".

Um, human history has repeatedly demonstrated that when a new technology emerges, the two highest priorities are:

How can we kill things with this?
How can we bone with this?

Right but a chatbot is light years away from artificial general intelligence. And also let's be honest if we want to go the pornography route then that's going to need robots, so that would need general intelligence. As would in fact killer drones.
So yeah, scepticism is highly warranted
- Killer drones already used AI to automatically find their targets pre-2021…
  And AI porn was made as soon as generative AI was able to produce pictures…
  But of course, if general AI is controllable in any way, it definitely will be miss-used for the two activities OC listed.

Ow, that's why they are restricting "organic" porn, to sell AI porn. Damn.

No money in curing cancer with an LLM. Heaps of money taking advantage if increasingly alienated and repressed people.

You could sell the cure for a fortune. Imagine something that can reliably cure late stage cancers. You could charge a million for the treatment, easily.
- Yes, selling the actual cure would be profitable...but an LLM would only ever provide the text for synthesizing it but none of the extensive testing, licensing, or manufacturing, etc.. An existing pharmaceutical company would have to believe the LLM and then front the costs for the development, testing, and manufacture...which constitutes a large proportion of the costs of bringing a treatment to market. Burning compute time on that is a waste of resources, especially when fleecing horny losers is available right now. It is just business.
There's loads of money in curing cancer. For one you can sell the cure for cancer to people with cancer.
- That's a weird take! It makes much more ~~money~~ sense to sell long term ~~subscriptions~~ treatments, rather than a one time cure.
  /s off course
What a weird take, research use AI already? Some researchers even research things that, gasp, is not monetiseable right away!
- I used to work in academic physics, and I currently work in data science. I am deeply familiar with both ends of the subject in question. LLMs are useful research tools because they speed up the reference finding and literature review process, not because they synthesize new information that does not need to be independently verified.
  In the context of medical research, they could absolutely use LLMs to facilitate a literature search. What LLMs cannot do is hand researchers a proposed cure that they could sell to people. You still need to do the leg work of synthesizing the molecules, standardizing the process, industrializing it, patenting it, multiple rounds of testing on increasingly complex animals and eventually people, and then going through the drug approval process with the FDA and others. LLMs speed up the CHEAPEST and EASIEST part of the research process. That is why LLMs will not be handing us the cure for cancer.

If you've ever wondered why porn sites use pictures of cars, buses, stop signs, traffic lights, bicycles and sidewalks in their captchas, it's because they're using the data to train car-driving AIs to recognize those patterns.

This is not what an imminent breakthrough in cancer research looks like.

Source?
- Google recaptcha? They literally talk about this publically. It's in their mission statement or whatever. It's used to train other kinds of model too.

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?

what if my kink is curing cancer?
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
- That's how the Nobel prize always works. The price goes to whoever managed to cross the finishing line, not all the thousands of scientists before who conducted preliminary research.

FYI, using openAI/ChatGPT is expensive. Programming it to program users into dependency on its "friendship" gets them to pay for more tokens, and then why not blackmail them or coerce/honeypot them into espionage for the empire. If you don't understand yet that OpenAI is arm of Trump/US military, among its pie in the sky promises is $35B for datacenters in Argentina.

What espionage is an AI simp going to be able to conduct?
I'm pretty sure this is just them flailing around not being able to come up with anything meaningful so they're going this route so they have some profit. I don't think a conspiracy beyond that is required.
- What espionage is an AI simp going to be able to conduct
  The AI simp's you are referring to isn't the tech billionaires who've managed useful technology development? It's an insult to users. Incels can't know anything sensitive?
  they’re going this route so they have some profit
  Your data and secrets is monetizable, and has been traded for last 20 years. The biggest AI customer is going to be US government's military/disinformation/destabilization departments. If you tell your AI gf that anti fa seems more reasonable than pro fa, then she will gift you an israeli pager.
  Sure, OpenAI can get $20/month from you to just be your bff, as bff 1.0. OpenAI's real BFF customer, will start giving it ideas on how 2.0 can make OpenAI more money.
  Supposedly, there was a leak from META where they were directing team to romanticize AI engagement with 8 year olds for better engagement numbers. Having unlimited time with you, is a powerful tool to shape ideology and loyalties. Media has traditionally programmed the masses after it replaced churches. You denying that absolute control isn't a goal when the tool is ideally suited for it is not a good look for you.

Porn can pay your way through school, so to speak

every once in a while i think about selling feet pics (mine are recognizable) but i don't think people want pictures of my genders feet
- I would totally do that if I could. I looked into Only Fans and something like 1% of dudes make any money and the upkeep is a lot of work.

What about an AI naughty nurse that does both?

You can use AI to fulfill your fantasies! for example: having healthcare (if you're not American, this joke does not apply)
- i'd rather lucid dream i have healthcare my friend. then i can use my care bear stare laser beam to apply vengeance to incompetent healthcare providers and administrators such that they will never know what it is like to satiate their hunger again. then ride a giant flying tardigrade named Hairy Terry off into the sunset.
  LLMs only let me imagine it, not (from my perception) experience it. and remember, no crimes without Hairy Terry on lookout

I appreciate that this post is using dark mode

ehm... cure cancer? I thought "cute cancer". Sorry bout that

You can't solve cancer because cancer is not a problem. It's a solution. Humans are the problem.

The kind of slop not even AI spits out
My dog died to cancer.
- Sorry for your loss.
Wow, you're really edgy and cool, aren't you? How does it feel to be a 13 year old nihilist that just realized that people are bad sometimes?

startups hyping shit up to get the investors drooling is one of the most despicable things a man can observe.

The thing that makes it actually bad is that they’re taking advantage of the mentally handicapped(investors). That and that said investors have millions to toss at nonsense while so many people are licky to have pennies to toss at such luxuries as “food”.
Honestly though I don’t think taking advantage of evil people, who swear they deserve their millions because they’re definitely super smart, is really anything I care that much about.
- facts

They think if they say the criminally insane part out loud it will protect them.

Well that is just basicness implied as if was intelligence. If you cannot work with anyone do not fucking cry when you are the common problem. Quote me cus I will be quoting myself.

What?
What you trying to say there Skippy?
Mods of microblog, consider this a personal attack towards you and your families explicitly.
- Hurry up weak dogs your bias is showing

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