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Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Feel like we've got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you've got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like "bro this is so scary how good we made this thing". Seems like bullshit.

I've seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don't think I'd just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could ask AI to find antibiotics to kill antibiotic resistant bacteria. The bonus would be to give it a lab and drones to conduct actual tests.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that more of a usecase for genetic/evolutionary algorithms? Those are anything but new, however. I don't really see much use of LLMs here, which is what the current "AI" trend is about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just an example of asking AI to solve a complex problem instead of a human. I'm not a subject matter expert.