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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 69 points 2 months ago (3 children)

None are paused tho. They might say they are

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 69 points 2 months ago (10 children)

And the beauty of this stance is that it's literally impossible to disprove, so you never have to be wrong.

Of course the problem is that you as the claimant have burden of proof.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I'll do you one better by just using logic. There is no more work needed for blinding lasers, you can pick up a battery powered IR setup for a few hundred dollars and strap it to a rifle, done. Recomb DNA actually is still being studied, allow me to gesture very broadly to ALL the shit we do with yeast and I dated a girl working with M. Maydis for treating breast cancer.

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If AI can only be done in such secrecy that it's impossible to disprove then I'd call that a win.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course the problem is that you as the claimant have burden of proof.

People who say this kind of thing about claims regarding government or industry-level activities have no clue about security classifications.

How are you supposed to provide proof for something that is being deliberately withheld from the public?

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've got a blinding laser in my CD burner.

Allegedly, a Dr in China was already creating designer babies, and recombinant DNA products exist (and therefore, the research to create those products is being done.) Hell, I've done my own recombinant DNA experiments in my bio labs during college.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The difference between AI and the other 3: AI has ths potential to save all the rich people trillions through the firing of the proletariat whereas the 3 numbered items were merely a small group of people trying to make money for themselves.

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[–] LaoiseFu@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

None of those were paused LOLOLOLOL

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Came here to say this, but without the LOLs.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Came here to say this, but with one lol.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

this is the way

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I find AI very frustrating. I had a script I wanted to turn into a systemd service which I've never done. I searched the web, didn't find quite what I wanted so I asked AI. It gave a great answer to exactly my question and explained what every field was doing. It got me there faster than searching and browsing forums would have.

So great, I also wanted to set up a watchdog on the pi to reboot. It tells me to get watchdog package from apt then edit a systemd conf file. An hour later with nothing working right gave up and found a tutorial in about 30 seconds of web browsing that made it clear AI was mixing up instructions from 2 different methods.

So it saved me 5 minutes on one thing, cost me an hour on another. I feel like the internet and search engines of 10 years ago were much better than what we have now.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 months ago

It was better ten years ago.

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd be pretty certain that if any of these has "paused" its just because research reached its limits and is waiting for the next big development that enables it to continue.

Also "recombinant DNA experiments"??? What in the world is meant by that?

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not how this meme format works

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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago (9 children)

And then there's antichiral bacteria, where the entire scientific community will shoot you if you even breath wrong adjacent to the idea

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

As someone who has family that died from mad cow (prion disease), fuck everything about that. The fact that there are prion-tainted spaces out in the wild, is terrifying enough.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

ooo, that's a fun concept to think of. yeah, grab your go bag.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

We do recombinant DNA experiments all the time. We just don't do it on humans, and even it depends on the specifics when done on test animals.

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

only after years of kicking and screaming, and companies that made CFCs switched to more expensive HFCs and later HFOs so it's not like they went out of the business. (alternative is use of hydrocarbons which is much cheaper but flammability was used as a reason to restrict their use) CFCs are also still used as chemical intermediates and as late as during covid there was an operational illegal R12 factory somewhere in northern china

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Recombinant DNA promised better organ transplants, but it made Christians uncomfortable, so Bush II banned it.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Humanity hasn't paused research in those areas. The West has, China on the other hand does its own thing, the Chinese love messing around with DNA they keep trying to make dinosaurs out of chickens.

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The west also has directed energy weapons (IR Lasers and whatever the f**k they used in Venezuela that made the guards bleed from every orifice) formally used for burning missiles in flight, that can easily punch a hole through a human

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Fuck reddit

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The only thing dangerous about AI is people believing the hype and thinking it can actually think and do things it can't do at all. LLMs, flock cameras etc. are just MENACE matchbox computers at their core. And it's dangerous that governments and CEOs are just blindly relying on whatever crap they pump out without human supervision.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Didn't we only stop RDNA experiments on humans? Like, nobody is gonna make a "designer baby" but don't we still do shit like give flies extra wings?

[–] wub@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Heed my warning science: If we start making flying purple babies, we will bring upon the wrath of the one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater.

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[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Well in theory we can fix all society. But we are greedy fucks

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I hear one more person say something along the lines of, "AI is the future" I'm going to strangle them. Of all the people that say that shit, none of them can explain how it works.

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[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The grifters want to become "too big to fail", so that a "pause" would cause finance market drama. So, first, block the sale of the shares -- that's needed to avoid the grifters offloading to bigger fools.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I mean none of those have immediate and massive financial advantages to the people doing them though.

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Two major flaws is none of those examples had the potential to be highly profitable. And all three of those had major ethical and morality concerns that the general public wouldn't approve.

AI is being packaged and sold as a toy, so while people do object to it, it's not the same scale of playing god or literal war crimes.

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[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't doug judy's "name one bad nurse" scene have been a way better fir for this meme?

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