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You wonder what happened. Back then, when biotech and genetic engineering was going to become hugely impactful Paul Berg & colleagues organized the Asilomar Con
by HarryHirsch 8y ago
You wonder what happened. Back then, when biotech and genetic engineering was going to become hugely impactful Paul Berg & colleagues organized the Asilomar Conference, and the impact of that meeting is still felt in the field. Now we have deep learning on Google-sized natural language corpora, and there isn't a word on the impacts of that on society.
- icebraining 8y agoI can't say I agree there isn't a word. There's been plenty of conversations about it, resulting in stuff like https://www.partnershiponai.org/ https://www.partnershiponai.org/ How honest those efforts are is, in my opinion, worth questioning, but they are talking about it.