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adjacent, same trend: https://news.ufl.edu/2024/09/blindness-gene-therapy/ https://news.ufl.edu/2024/09/blindness-gene-therapy/

• agumonkey 1y ago
  somehow it seems the singularity is here .. i hope it's well distributed
  • fao_ 1y ago
    I don't see how this represents the singularity. This is all humans doing work and building knowledge, much like it has always been. Can you point to a specific section of the article that elicits that assumption? Thanks
    • agumonkey 1y ago
      The general acceleration in research and outcomes, we're now fixing deep issues more and more often. And hardware / software improvements keep coming too, even outside of computing. Sorry if that sounded pompous but there's a slight feeling that we're not plateauing, quite the contrary.
    • perlgeek 1y ago
      I'm not super familiar with this, but I think many of the gene therapy advances did involve some form of machine learning to find relevant genes. Some might also use protein folding simulations, and the best ways to do that involve narrow AI. I'd love to hear from somebody in the medical research field how much AI/ML actually speeds up their progress.
• perlgeek 1y ago
  ... and then there was this Phase-1 trial in Japan about re-growing missing teeth. We're really making astonishing progress in many different areas in medicine these days. They are mostly pretty narrow, but also so awesome that ~20 years ago, many doctors would have called it science fiction.