• PotatoPie@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    I’m anti AI but i have to give it to the technology, for once, it’s used for something good and for a task no one wanted to manually do, with incredible results

    Until the sector is regulated i’ll just say this never happened

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      14 days ago

      Technically this probably isn’t AI but rather ML (machine learning) which is something that made great strides in science already in the past decade or so. E.g. alphafold, a program to predict folding of protein sequences predates all LLM crap and has become a cornerstone of anything protein expression.

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        14 days ago

        Nah, Alphafold came out at about the same time (actually a little after) AI image generation. They all came out together because the same hand full of people were working on them. They’re also all very similar algorithms; though, I don’t know where you want to draw the line between AI and machine learning – those are just two terms for the same thing to me.

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          14 days ago

          So when I talk about LLM, I mean in first line ChatGPT since it was the big event bringing LLMs to the public.

          Alphafolds first version came out in 2018, ChatGPT was only released in 2022. I don’t know where AI image generation comes into this, but that wasn’t my point anyway.

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            14 days ago

            Idk, there was a lot of hype about image generation at about the same time there was hype about Alphafold, and I bought a new computer immediately for Alphafold. My Amazon history says 2023, so 2022 might be about right. I can tell you the hype for Alphafold wasn’t until after COVID regardless of when the first version might have technically come out.

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        14 days ago

        Machine learning is categorically part of AI. It is just that people started slopply using the term to mean exclusively LLMs and generative models. The problem has never been AI but rather who’s using it