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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

AI is being used in the field of medicine to save people's lives, reduce costs and improve outcomes.

If you're not aware of those things it's because you're too lazy or stupid to look them up.

Aid in medical imaging diagnostics (e.g., detecting anomalies in radiology scans) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10487271/

Administrative and documentation (auto paperwork to allow more visitation time between patient and doctor) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01668-9/fulltext

Population health/predictive analysis https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2024.1522554/full

Or put it in a tube and fling it into space... ...oh wait.

[–] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have this thought often, what if instead of football and baseball we got around to watch a team if engineers do cool science shit for the season.

Jet pack cyber dogs can play capture the flag, recreation of midway w drones replacing fighter planes, pizza deliver drones that fly so high entry warms your pie.

Just saying paying men to move ball ain't for me....so I wanna see your money and support go to something I think cool.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

This is basically FIRST robotics. It should extend beyond high school though imo

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The ice bucket challenge paid off in real medical breakthroughs within 2 years by raising 115 million. Komen had a HUGE impact on breast cancer research that lead to real medical improvements that saved lives.

If we dumped AI money broadly into almost any field of research we'd see more people shift toward that field to get funding. We'd see struggling projects get the funding they need to continue. We'd see stuff that wasn't pursued because it's a long shot get the funding it needs. Better staffed and equipped labs where work is already being done.

You'd see an explosion in progress over the coming years.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The last time I ever saw our current dipshit of a president (who wasn't president at the time) do anything remotely altruistic was when he had ice water dumped on him for ALS.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

I support actually doing this.

As in literally taking the money straight out of the billionaire funding pockets. But not in parity with the amounts used for AI funding, I just mean all of it. And not simply "all of it", but actually all of it, to the point where they're in soup kitchen lines and panhandling, hoping to get enough to pay for dinner.

Take all that money and put it in science research, charities, etc.

If they can't get enough from the charities back to keep breathing, then oh well. Sorry people that deserve it got it instead, oh well, we'll make a note that we're all doing great on the money that was yours.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'll take some of that blacksmith funding. My plan is to take two laminated Damascus swords and then forge weld them together so you get twice the sword for your money.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Instead of welding them directly, can you please connect them with a nunchucks chain?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd take a Gordian Knot, and then fuse the ends together and then, I dunno, throw it at Alexander the Great's grave.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should join forces and become a Venturesmith duo. Forging our way across the land, raiding lost tombs.

After Alexander The Great we can hunt down that rascal Genghis Khan.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah! We'll develop CRISPR weapons to hunt down all traces of him in the genealogy of the general populace, and knockout/knockdown his DNA out of existence!

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Or like enamel growth on teeth experts.

Or tinnitus research.

Or migraine research.

Or longevity research.

Or any other research actually.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Or longevity research.

This one freaks me out. Rich people living long lives, long enough to build cults around them that the mortal poor will revere even more than they do now

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a rational argument for making live extension universal, namely that so long as you increase healthspan you've essentially delayed retirement by X years meaning you get a higher working to retirement ratio out of each worker. Unfortunately the people in charge are not rational and would probably support poisoning the drinking water to make themselves comparatively longer lived by ensuring no one else lives past 60 if they thought they could get away with it.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me it's the opposite that freaks me out:

Let's all grow old get sick and die so that dictators can't stay in power.

Doesn't seem to work perfectly well IMO.

Remember, longevity won't mean living forever or be immune against disease and accidents. Also if we would live longer laybe we'd have more time to figure things out and take care of what we got.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Death is the great equalizer, despots leave behind power vacuums to be filled by their many illegitimate children or other parties for vying for power. Good to know that the maximum extent of any of these reigns is 80 years.

As for us living long enough to figure things out, I wonder instead if we simply just retreat more and more into our creature comforts and echo chambers

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Death isn't a great equaliser, it's just pain for decades and then death. How old are you 😅?

In the same vein, should we stop all medical help to speed up this process of yours 😉 ?

Kidding a bit, we'll see what happens if/when it does I guess.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Old enough to see powerful rich old men unwilling to pass on control onto anyone else, both personally and in the public sphere.

Medical progress that trickles down to the masses (e.g. washing your hands after delivering a baby) is a net benefit to all. We have however seen the limits of trickle down theory, and are currently witnessing the dismantling of large public medical and scientific resources (NIH in particular was a longstanding pillar) at a speed and scale never quite done before, whilst pharmaceutical companies are swallowing up the talent pool.

Future medical advances genuinely might happen behind closed doors in the future, instead of under the eye of public discourse.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All the longevity research is very public as it is today, and if not both the USA and most European countries becomes dictatorships (and if it do, young or old it will be the same), I don't see that change.

They figured out a remedy for huntingtons disease not long ago, and the covid mRna vaccine was incredible science.

I'm on the optimistic side here.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Or you know... you could make food and water and renewable energy infrastructure for the entire planet.

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[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Tbh I don't get why all these men who are as rich as god aren't pumping large portions of the fortune into longevity research. Do they not want to live forever? We finally live in a time where we are starting to see real possibilities of growing all organs, and maybe even curing memory loss due to age. And they just, don't seem worried?

[–] currycourier@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Well here's the thing. Rich people are kinda dumb.

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[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't want to live longer in this world.

[–] banause@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Shortlivity is already well researched tho.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I suggest whiskey and cigarettes.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about just universal healthcare, housing, and education?

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If we could communicate with dolphins or primates I'm sure we'll use the tech for military use, breeding millions of primates in captivity to be sent to the frontline

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

'breeding millions of primates in captivity to be sent to the frontline'

Isn't this what Texas/Arkansas is already purposed for?

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Imagine if we just awarded it every year to the farmer who can grow the largest yield per acre or the manufacturer who built the best car.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 53 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They might end up shooting the dolphin up with acid and jerking it off until it commits suicide.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We can all hope to go out in such glorious fashion.

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More money does not always work to accelerate science. It does make scientists lives nicer though.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Which in turn incentivizes more quantity and quality of scientists which leads to....

Micro scale youre right though.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nothing good will come out of this if there's big tech venture capitalists involved. if these guys were in charge of developing a pencil - we would've been stuck with styluses and told that this is peak tech.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Leads only available on a subscription plan.

Bimonthly eraser upgrade.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you get lead credits - after you reach the limit - it locks you out of using the thing

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

yeah, and always online with GPS on

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