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sc94597 2 days ago
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Eagle367 said:
sc94597 said:

@ Bolded It's the same in kind (fundamentally different society with different modes and relations of production) but different in pace and intensity. 

The transition to capitalism was pretty disruptive. For nearly ten thousand years agricultural work was the primary occupation for the vast majority of people. Ownership over landed property was the source of wealth. The transition to wealth accumulation via arbitrage and more abstracted property ownership, and wage labor rather than slave or drudge labor was pretty significant. 

It just happened over half a millenia, whereas this is happening over a century at the longest (with the start date in the 80's probably.) 

The italized is point blank wrong. Alpha Proteo is good, it has revolutionized medical research. The automation of formalization of mathematics and quantitative science is good and will bring many advancements in sciences, despite science being the least funded its been in a century. I can see if your argument is that AI is on net bad, but to say there are no good applications is based in ignorance. 

Gen AI farms are not that. They said Gen AI farms do nothing good. The quantitative science analyzung big data bots are not gen AI. Its just deep learning technology that has been a thing for a while and they don't need huge data farms. 

This is the issue with smooshing a lot of tech together. Its for some tech to provide cover for the bad tech like gen AI. 

Deep learning tech in research and medicine did not cause worldwide disruptions mor are what is advertised. What is advertised is based on shit like Grok, Chat gpt, sora, etc

Alpha Proteo is a generative model and biologists need to use TPU/GPU time to inference with it (if they don't have an HPC locally.)  These TPUs/GPUs exist in "AI Farms." 

A generative model doesn't suddenly become non-generative because it is used for protein generation and not video, text, or image. 

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