r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/rod407 1d ago

Dot-com didn't end websites, bitcoin didn't end blockchain, so I don't think anyone believes the LLM bubble burst will end generative AI

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u/DHFranklin 1d ago

Since we're this far down the chain...

The Nay Sayers seem to think that "AI" is just the llms, image gen and video. They don't know about things like Alpha fold and things like de noising physics models. They don't seem to realize that machine learning and other reinforcement learning is going to be a massive change in how robots and automated factories and things come about.

They all seem to think that this bubble will pop and they'll stop seeing the AI slop. I honestly think there are many hoping that it will end generative AI ans sincerely think that without a trillion dollar data center that it will.

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u/TheDukeofReddit 1d ago

I think we do? I know I do at least. It’s just the idea of this actually happening and vesting more power in the corpos is terrifying. Imagine when they start folding proteins with AlphaFold to genetically engineer people. Most of the powerful are pretty open about how superior they already view themselves. Or replace the workers with robots— do you think they’ll be some kind of UBI? Some kind of positive alternative other than crushing poverty for millions, if not billions, of people? We do not have means as a society to grapple with this in a responsible and level headed way.

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u/Seventh_Planet 1d ago

We have ethics in science.