• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.

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      But you need to understand, preventing deaths doesn’t make Google any money. Please think about the poor corporation!

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        I think this is a miscalculation on Google’s part because dead people can’t buy their products.

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          20 hours ago

          People don’t buy products anymore. They’re too poor to care about. Businesses sell to governments and other businesses now and couldn’t care less what you want or think.

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      Honestly they could’ve pointed AI at this problem to try and rack up at least some positive AI press coverage

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          18 hours ago

          Actual, real, machine-learning artificial-intelligence. Not this sycophantic human mimic shit everybody’s fallen head over heels for. At the very bare-minimum comparison, AlphaFold had an established use-case.