“Cure cancer or whatever”
Fuck all the way off, Altman. You oversell a text generator. You’re not getting a Nobel prize for that.
Kissinger got a Nobel Peace Prize for napalming infants. I wouldn’t put it past them to give Altman one for using more electricity than most countries on glorified autocomplete.
To be fair, mRNA vaccines are largely possible due to AI, and not just any AI, but similar approaches that LLMs use. They took NLP (natural language processing) concepts, which were the precursor to today’s LLMs, to generate a bunch of possibilities. That’s how we were able to get COVID-19 vaccines so quickly, and we’re likely to use that for a ton of other diseases going forward.
It’s not that far-fetched that similar techniques could be used to cure cancer.
That cunt actually tried to greentext on twitter
fun fact! on Voyager (Lemmy for mobile app) you can’t read the title because it’s a quote due to a bug.
for those who can’t read it, the title is:>meme arrows
I also submitted a bug report and a fix is on the way :)
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1918lolwut why does markdown work in post titles
Sam you can’t “effective altruism” a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to “cure cancer” to make silly memes or saucy images.
If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that “Rationalism” logic-circle-wankfest and now you’re disappointed when people aren’t making the “correct” timeless-decisions and “optimising for the future” because they’re regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.
