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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 weeks ago (3 children)

None are paused tho. They might say they are

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 69 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago (1 children)

None of those were paused LOLOLOLOL

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

Came here to say this, but without the LOLs.

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

Came here to say this, but with one lol.

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

this is the way

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

That touches on the heart of it; search engines have been so enshittified that AI is by default better, because it occasionally gets information from its training data that isn't easily found through normal searching.

(Some) AI has it's place, as in GAN AI is amazing at finding subtle indicators of patterns that can be extrapolated to new data, but got it's just so bad at 99% of applications it has ever been used for, including the entire concept of LLMs which are such an inherently flawed technology that they'll never be passable as useful for anyone that isn't a greedy shortsighted CEO wanting to replace workers as soon as possible.

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

It was better ten years ago.

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

That's not how this meme format works

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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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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[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck reddit

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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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[–] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ooooohh it's so dangerous and capable ooohhhhh please we need to be regulated ooooooo we're not releasing it to the public it's so dangerous ooooooo

[–] SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

No idea what you're on about. Mythos is a GAME CHANGER. Completely DESTROYS software security. Thats why we're going to SAVE THE WORLD by letting our corporate sponsors use it.

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

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

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