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Wurzl@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?

www.theguardian.com

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Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?

www.theguardian.com

Wurzl@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us?
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    We don’t have AI though. We have LLMs which are glorified auto correct machines that generate globs of text based on which words are most likely to appear near which other words.

    Probabilistic scrabble isn’t going to cure shit.

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      Probabilistic scrabble isn’t going to cure shit.

      To be more exact, if probabilistic approach could have found the cure for something, it has found it by now.

      Breakthroughs typically require a new way of thinking about the problem, not throwing more brute force at it.

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      LLM = AI

      AI ≠ LLM

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        What Big tech is currently pushing are LLMs, not the type of “AI” that could potentially find a cure. Hence the purpose behind my specificity.

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        https://www.math.net/symmetric-property-of-equality

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          This isn’t a mathematical equation.

          All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. AI is the rectangle and LLMs are the squares.

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            All spaghetti is pasta.

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