falsehoods youtubers believe about "AI"
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@cthos there was a whole spate of these back when people cared about SARS-nCoV-2, a whole little cottage industry of bad guessing machines that would look at an x-ray and try to diagnose something
As I recall many of them suffered from effectively learning to tell whether or not the radiograph indicated that the patient was lying down, because that is a decent correlate…
I get where it comes from when it comes to Money Bastards. Radiography is expensive, every other part of medicine is expensive. They'd love to eliminate the humans and increase their profit margin.
But the indignity of Joe Sixpack carrying water for this position and not even getting paid for spreading lies? OOF.
@SnoopJ There's another one that I can't find lately but it was basically "machine predicts TB more often when the X-Ray machine is older because that is correlated with places with higher incidents of TB".
I'm pretty generally in the camp of "machine learning not great for healthcare" in general, but for specific sets of data crunching to expand or narrow what you might want to target for a therapeutic. But then you have a problem with all datasets being biased.
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@SnoopJ There's another one that I can't find lately but it was basically "machine predicts TB more often when the X-Ray machine is older because that is correlated with places with higher incidents of TB".
I'm pretty generally in the camp of "machine learning not great for healthcare" in general, but for specific sets of data crunching to expand or narrow what you might want to target for a therapeutic. But then you have a problem with all datasets being biased.
@cthos yea, the great thing about specialist models is that they SOLVE a specific problem
the bad thing about specialist models is that solve a SPECIFIC problem (therefore you cannot get infinite growth out of just one)
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@cthos yea, the great thing about specialist models is that they SOLVE a specific problem
the bad thing about specialist models is that solve a SPECIFIC problem (therefore you cannot get infinite growth out of just one)
@SnoopJ Ayup.
We could still probably have some utility on specialized models for, say, disease detection, if the output were strictly used as a "please check this again" mechanism rather than "check more faster go go go go go, also we fired all the techs". Not really the world we live in though.
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@SnoopJ Ayup.
We could still probably have some utility on specialized models for, say, disease detection, if the output were strictly used as a "please check this again" mechanism rather than "check more faster go go go go go, also we fired all the techs". Not really the world we live in though.
@cthos yea, it's become quite unfashionable to solve a problem and merely make an extemely high profit margin on selling the solution.
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@SnoopJ Does the protein folding one count as not a good use case?
@OliviaVespera it is a good use of machine learning
the discussion is about generative AI like Large Language Models (LLM) or audio, image and video generators that are trained on copyrighted material
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"But SnoopJ have you considered just not watching trash"
I mean, I *have* considered it
@SnoopJ but then what would you have to toot about on sunday nights!?
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@SnoopJ but then what would you have to toot about on sunday nights!?
@_NetNomad an excellent point!
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@OliviaVespera perhaps more importantly: the potential harms are much smaller than the "machine that diagnoses you" stuff, which is basically *made* out of harm.
@SnoopJ I agree, I wanted to be sure in case there is something I've missed. I've touted along with veritasium that this was probably the only genuinely goodd thing that generative AI has done. Not only to discover the shape of all proteins known to us, but to use that knowledge to generate new never before seen proteins.
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@SnoopJ I agree, I wanted to be sure in case there is something I've missed. I've touted along with veritasium that this was probably the only genuinely goodd thing that generative AI has done. Not only to discover the shape of all proteins known to us, but to use that knowledge to generate new never before seen proteins.
@OliviaVespera the "generate new stuff" thing I have a lot more skepticism for
especially after google's stunt with GNoME which turned out to basically be a sort of advanced academic spamming of the materials community
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hearing gullible 20-somethings say "this technology DOES have good use-cases, like in medicine for example…"
is going to turn me into the fucking Joker
oh right, also:
mumble mumble Therac-25
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@OliviaVespera it is a good use of machine learning
the discussion is about generative AI like Large Language Models (LLM) or audio, image and video generators that are trained on copyrighted material
@davidak @OliviaVespera @SnoopJ
Does anyone know of a good list that differentiates between the multiple types of "AI" technologies? LLM vs. MoE vs. …?
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oh right, also:
mumble mumble Therac-25
@SnoopJ istg if I ever hear someone actually use the word "interlock" in reference to a LLM 🔪
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