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The whole point of this post was that it's questionable what can be achieved without huge investments into oversight and steering, because navier-stokes was a t
by dotdi 19d ago
The whole point of this post was that it's questionable what can be achieved without huge investments into oversight and steering, because navier-stokes was a topic with an unusual level of specification. The problem itself was a specification. Such situations are rare in real-world scenarios.
AI agents are good at solving well-specified tasks, not at solving problems. They do well in fields where the cost/effort of specification is already part of the business.
- intrasight 19d ago> a topic with an unusual level of specification Solving cancer also has an unusual level of specification. Many real world problems have that characteristic.
- lelanthran 19d ago> Solving cancer also has an unusual level of specification. Where did you read that? "Cancer" is not just a single disease, even though we layman use the term that way. Cancer is a family of diseases, each probably having their own specific solution, but even in each of these individual diseases, there is no specification at the level of any open maths problem.
- intrasight 19d agoI know what cancer is. Many scientists believe that all human adults above the age of about 30 have "cancer". I really meant solving a specific cancer disease for a specific individual, which will require individualized medicine, which will require us to leverage AI to make it possible to do for the general population as opposed to doing it just for Lance Armstrong and the like. I know I'm an optimist, but I really think AI is gonna result in drastically improved healthcare for a much lower price.
- hi_im_greg_h 19d agoThis is so untrue its actually insane to me that anyone could believe this. The real world is so messy, and specifically cancer/biology is insanely messy and certainly not well specified. You should close chatgpt and read a book sometime.
- goolz 19d agoMaybe a specific cancer but in general “solving cancer” is about as scattershot and unspecific as you could be.