As soon as hallucinations were an option, it proved it could never be trusted as anything other than a toy. That takes literally no knowledge about it other than the fact it can tell you lies. Anyone that thinks otherwise is clearly an idiot.
Generative AI actually does have a few real uses. Most notable is in the generation of new protein sequences.
Not long ago, you had PhD’s whose entire career was understanding a single protein sequence. Now we can generate thousands of properly folded proteins. Millions. Stuff nature never thought of.
Due to patent law, the biotech revolution is still a few years out, but it’s coming.
You want an enzyme that breaks apart plastic? We can design one now and have yeast producing it within a day or two.
And there are millions more that we can now play with.
Anyway, there are a few more niche uses for generative AI. But then idiot CEOs decided to shove that shit into everything. To decidedly mixed success.
LLMs are generally OK, if you can craft an unbiased question that demands facts. Never seen ChatGPT get it wrong. But it’s stunning how easily you can manipulate them just a couple of prompts deep.
Thing is, most people, in America anyway, didn’t get the science training I got in 70s elementary school, and even though I’m barely above average IQ, I was a star science student. Imagine those people who don’t understand empiricism using LLMs. The mind boggles.
As soon as hallucinations were an option, it proved it could never be trusted as anything other than a toy. That takes literally no knowledge about it other than the fact it can tell you lies. Anyone that thinks otherwise is clearly an idiot.
Generative AI actually does have a few real uses. Most notable is in the generation of new protein sequences.
Not long ago, you had PhD’s whose entire career was understanding a single protein sequence. Now we can generate thousands of properly folded proteins. Millions. Stuff nature never thought of.
Due to patent law, the biotech revolution is still a few years out, but it’s coming.
You want an enzyme that breaks apart plastic? We can design one now and have yeast producing it within a day or two.
And there are millions more that we can now play with.
Anyway, there are a few more niche uses for generative AI. But then idiot CEOs decided to shove that shit into everything. To decidedly mixed success.
What you are actually talking about is Machine learning/genAI.
You have to make that clear, since most people only know ChatGPT as AI, and thus think that people are using ChatGPT for such things
LLMs are generally OK, if you can craft an unbiased question that demands facts. Never seen ChatGPT get it wrong. But it’s stunning how easily you can manipulate them just a couple of prompts deep.
Thing is, most people, in America anyway, didn’t get the science training I got in 70s elementary school, and even though I’m barely above average IQ, I was a star science student. Imagine those people who don’t understand empiricism using LLMs. The mind boggles.