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A bigger question for me isn't whether AI will take our jobs but whether we're actually looking at the next step in human evolution. It's fun to ask a GPT to g
by LouisSayers 4y ago
A bigger question for me isn't whether AI will take our jobs but whether we're actually looking at the next step in human evolution.
It's fun to ask a GPT to generate images that never existed or passages of text that are compelling.
What happens though when this is applied to DNA?
Can we rank human DNA by the strengths / weaknesses of its creation and then ask it to combine physical strength with human intelligence? Can we then mix in the traits of animals to give these humans superior eyesight or to see colour spectrums outside our current abilities, and to somehow effectively print a new breed of human?
Perhaps the threat of AI doesn't lie inside a machine, but here in the real world.
It's crazy to think, but play this out and "AI" may indeed take your job.
- lm28469 4y ago> and to somehow effectively print a new breed of human? If we can't do it manually ourselves what would make an AI that learns on already stablished facts/technique able to do it ? I feel like most people project way to far into the realm of complete sci-fi when it comes to AI. It makes me think of people imagining flying cities and flying cars "in he year 2000"
- LouisSayers 4y ago> If we can't do it manually ourselves Because this is what computers are good at - crunching large volumes of data and with the latest machine learning, being able to utilise patterns in data to combine them in novel ways. And we do already do this ourselves in biology - it's called genetic engineering...
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoAh, so this is how Frankenstein and Jurassic Park come to be...