• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    How exactly will this produce novel new ideas, AI is literally incapable of doing anything it hasn’t already been trained to do.

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      5 days ago

      It won’t, but it might produce mediocre drivel at low cost, which is more profitable than paying a team of creatives to make something actually good.

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          5 days ago

          AI recombines, searches for alternatives, and can try different stuff. Sure, it wont magically generate a new genera, but it has generated a lot of new solutions in fields like protein recombination and such.

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        5 days ago

        Damn, seeing how Lemmy groupthink and piling on works is interesting. If it was the case, Alpha Fold wouldn’t be a thing.