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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world/p/1758477/using-fascist-technology-to-fight-fascism-still-promotes-fascist-technology
Using fascist technology to fight fascism still promotes fascist technology.
No they don’t, but say whatever you need to ignore me. That’s definitely what someone arguing in good faith would do.
Citation needed.
Quite the opposite, actually. It causes enormous problems and has no benefits that aren’t better served by existing technologies that lack those problems.
Citation needed*
Well I’ll be the better man I guess… Okkkkkaaay so, first off, I’ve included a few studies published before the rise of modern ai, one from 2011 making extremely similar claims towards Google searches, but hey I can find more if you really want. Additionally, I’d love to see you work to replace several modern llm integrations with “existing technologies” because I’m here to tell you it cannot fucking be done and I’m willing to cite several fields but why don’t you just take a look at mathematics where ai has advanced the field several times over the past few months, or biology where ai has gotten so good at predicting protein fold structures that work for certain requirements that there is literally no alternative technology capable of the same feats.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6866412/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7099936/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20617
https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/dwegner/files/sparrow_et_al._2011.pdf
https://aiinstitute.hbs.edu/navigating-the-jagged-technological-frontier/
The protein fold prediction stuff alone is huge. If we discover a cure for Alzheimer’s in my lifetime, or hell, even an effective treatment of the dementia symptoms, it will probably be due in part to these tools.
Well Google disbanded the AlphaFold team last month and moved the people there to work on Gemini to generate more slop, because they never really cared about that. It was just a stepping stone like making AI play Go.
Even if they reassign the researchers to other projects, I find it hard to believe that they just casually won a chemistry Nobel on their way to making more believable fake internet pictures. And putting aside the curing cancer of it all, why wouldn’t the most conniving capitalist in the world be interested in discovering patentable drugs? It’s huge business.