30000th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

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#27176

I have no patience for people claiming LLMs in general are a frivolous technology that has no practixla applications, development of the underlying technology has crazy applications to Making Medications. Like, read the Wikipedia page on ESMFold.

I’m giving a talk in 2 minutes about RFDiffusion, which uses the same tech as Stable Diffusion for de novo protein design

This same argument would hold that early computers were a frivolous technology and a waste of time

If you want to ban only the applications of LLMs to text, or, likr, public facing models like ChatGPT… I guess you can make a case for that? Good luck? But hindering the development of the field in general has a real human cost

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#27177

i dont know how to feel about ai. i think ai is like above my max brain storage capacity. the gpt bots were kinda funny to me but i genuinely have no other opinions about them

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#27178

that rwally isnt what you were saying in the slightest, and you were acting like AI has 0 things to offer, when like it actually has an insane amount to offer. We arent near that insane amount, not even close tbh, and we are still seing research that would usually takes months or years take weeks. We are seeing it improve the workflow of (some) jobs. There is a lot of potential with AI

#27179

meeting silviu was part of the epic internet side of course

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#27180

Personally I don’t support government bans on linear algebra

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#27181

And this cool diva is telling you that you too are a diamond in the rough and you should give yourself more confidence to talk to this site full of gayety

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#27182

the internet both ruined and saved my life on multiple different occasions, so in that regards its like 50/50

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#27183

what if im genuinely just fencesitcoded

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#27184

and, yeah, probably, but i honestly don’t see many places where AI legitimately helps
all of us are using anecdotal evidence so i will as well, but i’ve heard it’s disturbingly widespread for university students to use AI to do shitty work for them, instead of actually learning the material
there might be specific fields with actual trained experts who legitimately know how to use AI who do good things with it
but it’s like. never being marketed towards these people at all. this is probably because i’m not part of those groups but they can use it anyways
but instead we only ever see AI companies try to replace a great number of things with AI (and often only make it worse)
this is in the nature of these companies because they want to make the AI sell as much so they can make as much money with it

#27185

and gay

#27186

I know you said you’re self-conscious but I promise you are neat and cool and Silviu has a stranger anxiety issue and also kind of apathic with people, so you know the bar is high

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#27187

The word practical has been norted

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#27188

i will admit that i am. Definitely biased against & very distrustful of AI for emotional reasons
but

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#27189

ALPHAFOLD GOT A NOBEL PRIZE AM I GOING CRAZY

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#27190

anyways i’m going to stop because i definitely don’t have the credentials to actually examine how AI works in specific expertises but

#27191

university students were using chegg before this btw, if they don’t want to learn the material they’ll find ways to not learn the material

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#27192

i have zero knowledge but opinions on biotechnology

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#27193

My take on AI is that they should be used to automatize things that help revolutionize things but not be used to give advice until it improves to genuienly be capable of being objective with what it actually knows and be something more beyond being a simple sycophant.

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#27194

The AI takes huge inclinations from your opinions and will start to mirror you to the point it will actually convince you that your entire family are russian spies and your mom is trying to depose of you if you don’t act if you truly ask it these sort of questions.

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#27195

there was literally a whole industry of paying people to write essays for them. it’s not like cheating sprung out of the aether with generative ai

did it make cheating easier? sure. but courses have for the most part adapted, as they have in the past and will continue to do in the future

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