| > So what we have ongoing for half a century? Except fully automated, cheaper, and with the capacity to fluently respond to each and every person who cares about the topic. At GPT-4 prices, a billion words is only about 79800 USD. > Life can’t be “won” by intelligence, that is only one factor, luck being a very significant other one. It doesn't need to be the only factor, it just needs to be a factor. Luck in particular is the least helpful counterpoint, as it's not like only one person uses AI at any given moment. > Especially biology is massively data-limited, which won’t be any more available to an AI than to the researchers at hand, let alone that teenager. Indeed; I certainly hope this isn't as easy as copy-pasting bits of one of the many common cold virus strains with HIV. But homebrew synbio and DNA alteration is already a thing. |