oh hey, we're back to "deepmind models dreamed up some totally novel structures!", but proteins this time! news!
do we want to start a betting pool for how long it'll take 'em to walk this back too?
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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oh hey, we're back to "deepmind models dreamed up some totally novel structures!", but proteins this time! news!
do we want to start a betting pool for how long it'll take 'em to walk this back too?
it’s weird how they’re pumping this specific bullshit out now that a common talking point is “well you can’t say you hate AI, because the non-generative bits do actually useful things like protein folding”, as if any of us were the ones who chose to market this shit as AI, and also as if previous AI booms weren’t absolutely fucking turgid with grifts too
given the semi-known depth of google-lawyer-layering, I suspect this presser got put together a few weeks prior
not that I'm gonna miss an opportunity to enjoy it landing when it does, mind you
i'm tired boss
but but proteins! surely they've got it right this time! /s
(I wondered what you'd say when I saw this. I can only imagine how exhausting)
wait that's just antibodies with extra steps
living things literally are just fuzzing it until something sticks and it works
Jackbooted thugs put creative entrepreneur behind bars for the "crime" of creating bots to listen to bot-created "music":
Not really a sneer, but just a random thought on the power cost of AI. We are prob under counting the costs of it if we just look at the datacenter power they themselve use, we should also think about all the added costs of the constant scraping of all the sites, which at least for some sites is adding up. For example (And here there is also the added cost of the people needing to look into the slowdown, and all the users of the site who lose time due to the slowdown).
years ago on a trip to nyc, I popped in at the aws loft. they had a sort of sign-in thing where you had to provide email address, where ofc I provided a catchall (because I figured it was a slurper). why do I tell this mini tale? oh, you know, just sorta got reminded of it:
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 07:22:05 +0000
From: Amazon Web Services <[email protected]>
To: <snip>
Subject: Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?
(e: once again lost the lemmy formatting war)
Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?
Hell yeah!
I'm gonna do it: GENERATIVE AI. Look at that capitalization.
there’s no way you did that without consulting copilot or at least ChatGPT. thank you sam altman for finally enabling me to capitalize whole words in my editor!
....this just made me wonder what quotient of all these promptfondlers and promptfans are people who've just never really been able to express emotion (for whatever reason (there are many possible causes, this ain't a judgement about that)), who've found the prompts' effusive supportive "yes, and"-ness to be the first bit of permission they ever got to express
and now my brain hurts because that thought is cursed as fuck