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> The Kardashians are a household conversation topic, but that doesn't make them profound. I would argue that AI has grabbed orders of magnitude more headlines
by Our_Benefactors 3y ago
> The Kardashians are a household conversation topic, but that doesn't make them profound.
I would argue that AI has grabbed orders of magnitude more headlines in the past 6 months.
And AI is pretty damn profound, so I’m struggling to grasp the point this comment is making.
- jjtheblunt 3y agohey, it's honestly nice thinking this out with you. the point is that headlines are one thing, but they don't evaluate impact of a technology very well, though they do evaluate hype. i question, is AI getting so much enthusiasm because the ideas are more widely accessible, have been prominent in sci-fi for 50 years (at least), whereas hardcore genetics tools, and recent discover of how to effect surgery on DNA as code, is appreciated by a smaller audience? I mean, look at the sophistication required to appreciate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing and pretty clearly that's a hardcore hacker effort realized in biology, and it won 2 Nobel prizes as assessed not by headline count but by the world of scientists, and that in under 10 years, which basically is amazing. disclaimer: i come from a foot in both worlds background, so I am mega enthused (like you) about the transformers results, as well as 'computing' in genomics. i wonder if the two worlds will soon collaborate, by the way.