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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (self.technology)
submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix to c/technology
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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Anything that requires tons of iteration can be done way faster with AI. Finding new chemical formulas for medicine, as an example. It takes a "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach, but it's still more effective than a human.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Brute force is AI now?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

brute force would be "throw at the wall one at a time until one stick"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

As long as everything gets thrown it's still brute force, but the reason they use ai for it is because it can throw a lot more a lot faster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Presumably in order to determine whether the eg chemical is worth looking at in the first place