If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots.

[westerninfidels@mefi.social]

@Daojoan They suddenly remembered they had no interest in curing _your_ cancer.

[jornane@ipv6.social]

@Daojoan They need more data on peoples' bodies in order to solve cancer, and the horny chatbots help them get that data, duh.

(not serious obs, but Poe's law)

[xchaos@f.cz]

@dblHelix you cannot expect one single "cure for cancer", because there are many types of cancers and the only thing they have in common is runaway cell replication, which is unfortunately hard to distinguish from legitimate cell replication.

I don't really buy the usual conspiracies of "someone making profit on something": when better solution is found, the system can sometimes adopt almost overnight: I remember, how CRT displays were replaced by LCDs almost overnight (and by the way, it was cancer related, because you were exposed to certain radiation risk, when sitting next to the rear side of CRT....)

However, the machine learning needed to solve biochemistry challenges is probably of different type, than LLMs... and it is not just biochemistry, AI can analyze really huge datasets and find unexpected correlations of cancer cases (but again: you would have to train AI on something else, then language). We already know about pathogens in the environment, but "cure" would be about reverting damage done by these.

[foxxie911@mastodon.bd]

@jornane @Daojoan "for educational purposes only"

[welkin7@mstdn.party]

@Daojoan 7 billion is the estimated population of humans. Assuming half are males, i.e. 3.5 billion males. Assuming 25% of those are in the estimated age bracket who would like to have #AI girlfriends that is 0.875 million.

Now many people are afflicted with #Cancer these days?

The numbers, the economics of scale just does not compare.

No offense intended. Just giving out back of envelope numbers.

[cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net]

@Daojoan it's the part of you that kept typing through "I don't have an MBA" that I love, for the record.

[bit@ohai.social]

@Daojoan Maybe they were in fact 18 months away from curing cancer 18 months ago, but they simply had too much stock tied up in pharmaceutical companies.

[rliblog@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan But I want to turn people into dinosaurs.

[betelgeus3@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan cancer is parasite CBD oil fasting can cure , it is already fixed. It is proven cancer is only survive in acidic environment. Which means you just need keep away from acidic foods stress

[sanityinc@hachyderm.io]

@Daojoan there might actually be more money in wanktokens

[captainbeardzy@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan history is full of creeps and sex-pests who made major scientific discoveries. Perhaps it’s the *only* way /s

[jef@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Maybe the cure for cancer is being super horny all the time

[bug@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Daojoan lol wh

[billmcguire@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan
Horse feathers! Anyone who happens upon a few of your posts could verify that your brain functions at a higher level than many.

[alephwyr@chitter.xyz]

@Daojoan Poetically suspect this is what it looks like for aliens to veto a planet's ascension to galactic relevance, but that's ambiguous: that too represents the same basic moral incontinence. So the only things being added are humiliation and incompetence.

[deepmud@mas.to]

@dannyman I find all this most entertaining.

Along with all those years of self driving being right around the corner

[deepmud@mas.to]

@tobi tom lehrer would approve! He wrote a song about smut

[deepmud@mas.to]

@tobi I'm so glad! He was a national treasure and there was a time I could sing all of those songs!

Well worth a listen, he made me laugh every single time.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@jef @Daojoan This theory needs a peen review

[baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone]

@Daojoan There's probably a slop to slop joke in here but I'm not willing to get AI to make it for me.