• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Generative AI actually does have a few real uses. Most notable is in the generation of new protein sequences.

    Not long ago, you had PhD’s whose entire career was understanding a single protein sequence. Now we can generate thousands of properly folded proteins. Millions. Stuff nature never thought of.

    Due to patent law, the biotech revolution is still a few years out, but it’s coming.

    You want an enzyme that breaks apart plastic? We can design one now and have yeast producing it within a day or two.

    And there are millions more that we can now play with.

    Anyway, there are a few more niche uses for generative AI. But then idiot CEOs decided to shove that shit into everything. To decidedly mixed success.

    • Luffy@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      What you are actually talking about is Machine learning/genAI.

      You have to make that clear, since most people only know ChatGPT as AI, and thus think that people are using ChatGPT for such things