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by tedesign 9 days ago
This is extremely disturbing.
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Man tries to find way to improve situation that gave him needless distress surrounding the death of his newborn.

Internet reply: this is extremely disturbing

Well the „improvement“ here seems to be „it has some likelihood of genetic disorder let’s speed up death“
In what way?
lots of different ways, the loss of a child the potential loss of two children, the powerlessness and despair the parents would have been feeling... turning to AI which might have a positive outcome but many of us are not very trusting of the tool.

Its a sad story. I wish them well, I hope this is one of those scenarios that AI works exactly as desired.

My technical take from this story was that human-run labs turned out to be less reliable than current AI.

This is the sort of performance/quality gap that is not obviously seen (who in the general population understands lab protocols in detail?) and could be massively improved with AI.