I firmly believe we won’t get most of the interesting, “good” AI until after this current AI bubble bursts and goes down in flames.
I can’t imagine that you read much about AI outside of web sources or news media then. The exciting uses of AI is not LLMs and diffusion models, though that is all the public talks about when they talk about ‘AI’.
For example, we have been trying to find a way to predict protein folding for decades. Using machine learning, a team was able to train a model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) to predict the structure of proteins with high accuracy. Other scientists have used similar techniques to train a diffusion model that will generate a string of amino acids which will fold into a structure with the specified properties (like how image description prompts are used in an image generator).
This is particularly important because, thanks to mRNA technology, we can write arbitrary sequences of mRNA which will co-opt our cells to produce said protein.
Robotics is undergoing similar revolutionary changes. Here is a state of the art robot made by Boston Dynamics using a human programmed feedback control loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ
Object detection, image processing, logistics, speech recognition, etc. These are all things that required tens of thousands of hours of science and engineering time to develop the software for, and the software wasn’t great. Now, freshman at college can train a computer vision network that outperforms these tools using free tools and a graphics card which will outperform the human-created software.
AI isn’t LLMs and image generators, those may as well be toys. I’m sure eventually LLMs and image generation will be good, but the only reason it seems amazing is because it is a novel capability that computers have not had before. But the actual impact on the real world will be minimal outside of specific fields.
and that robotics training, where has that improved human lives? because near as I can tell it’s simply going to put people out of work. the lowest paid people. so that’s just great.
but let’s give you some slack: let’s leave it to protein folding and robotics and stop sticking it into every fuckin facet of our civilization.
and protein folding and robotics training wouldn’t require google, x, meta and your grandmother to be rolling out datacenters EVERYWHERE, driving up the costs of electricity for the average user, while polluting the air and water.
Faux, I get it, you’re an aibro, you really are a believer. Evidence isn’t going to sway you because this isn’t evidence driven. The suffering of others isn’t going to bother you, that’s their problem. The damage to the ecosystem isn’t your problem, you apparently don’t need water or air to exist. You got it made bro.
The ability to know how any sequence of amino acids will create a protein and what shape the protein would have. This also led to other scientists creating diffusion models which can be prompted with protein properties and they generate the sequence of amino acids which will create a protein with those properties. We also can write those arbitrary sequences into mRNA and introduce that into a local area of our cells.
and that robotics training, where has that improved human lives?
Well, Fukushima would be one place.
Now they can use disposable robotic dogs to do clean up and monitoring in high radiation areas. A job that humans were doing at the beginning. I’m sure those humans appreciate not having to die of cancer early.
Faux, I get it, you’re an aibro, you really are a believer. Evidence isn’t going to sway you because this isn’t evidence driven. The suffering of others isn’t going to bother you, that’s their problem. The damage to the ecosystem isn’t your problem, you apparently don’t need water or air to exist. You got it made bro
🙄. If you can’t win an argument just switch to insults, the tactic of choice for the ignorant.
Oh I have read and heard about all those things, none of them (to my knowledge) are being done by OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, or any of the large companies fueling the current AI bubble, which is why I call it a bubble. The things you mentioned are where AI has potential, and I think that continuing to throw billions at marginally better LLMs and generative models at this point is hurting the real innovators. And sure, maybe some of those who are innovating end up getting bought by the larger companies, but that’s not as good for their start-ups or for humanity at large.
AlphaFold is made by DeepMind, an Alphabet (Google) subsidiary.
Google and OpenAI are also both developing world models.
These are a way to generate realistic environments that behave like the real world. These are core to generating the volume of synthetic training data that would allow training robotics models massively more efficient.
Instead of building an actual physical robot and having it slowly interact with the world while learning from its one physical body. The robot’s builder could create a world model representation of their robot’s body’s physical characteristics and attach their control software to the simulation. Now the robot can train in a simulated environment. Then, you can create multiple parallel copies of that setup in order to generate training data rapidly.
It would be economically unfeasible to build 10,000 prototype robots in order to generate training data, but it is easy to see how running 10,000 different models in parallel is possible.
I think that continuing to throw billions at marginally better LLMs and generative models at this point is hurting the real innovators.
On the other hand, the billions of dollars being thrown at these companies is being used to hire machine learning specialists. The real innovators who have the knowledge and talent to work on these projects almost certainly work for one of these companies or the DoD. This demand for machine learning specialists (and their high salaries) drives students to change their major to this field and creates more innovators over time.
I can’t imagine that you read much about AI outside of web sources or news media then. The exciting uses of AI is not LLMs and diffusion models, though that is all the public talks about when they talk about ‘AI’.
For example, we have been trying to find a way to predict protein folding for decades. Using machine learning, a team was able to train a model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) to predict the structure of proteins with high accuracy. Other scientists have used similar techniques to train a diffusion model that will generate a string of amino acids which will fold into a structure with the specified properties (like how image description prompts are used in an image generator).
This is particularly important because, thanks to mRNA technology, we can write arbitrary sequences of mRNA which will co-opt our cells to produce said protein.
Robotics is undergoing similar revolutionary changes. Here is a state of the art robot made by Boston Dynamics using a human programmed feedback control loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ
Here is a Boston Dynamics robot “using reinforcement learning with references from human motion capture and animation.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44_zbEwz_w
Object detection, image processing, logistics, speech recognition, etc. These are all things that required tens of thousands of hours of science and engineering time to develop the software for, and the software wasn’t great. Now, freshman at college can train a computer vision network that outperforms these tools using free tools and a graphics card which will outperform the human-created software.
AI isn’t LLMs and image generators, those may as well be toys. I’m sure eventually LLMs and image generation will be good, but the only reason it seems amazing is because it is a novel capability that computers have not had before. But the actual impact on the real world will be minimal outside of specific fields.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-gemini-struggles-to-write-code-calls-itself-a-disgrace-to-my-species
yeah this shit’s working out GREAT
then pray tell where is it working out great?
again, you have nothing to refute the evidence placed before you except “ah that’s a bunch of links” and “not everything is an llm”
so tell us where it’s going so well.
Not the meacha-hitler swiftie porn, heh, yeah I wouldn’t want to be associated with it either. But your aibros don’t care.
I was talking about public perception of AI. There is a link to a study by a prestigious US university which support my claims.
AI is doing well in protein folding and robotics, for example
ah what great advances has alpha fold delivered?
and that robotics training, where has that improved human lives? because near as I can tell it’s simply going to put people out of work. the lowest paid people. so that’s just great.
but let’s give you some slack: let’s leave it to protein folding and robotics and stop sticking it into every fuckin facet of our civilization.
and protein folding and robotics training wouldn’t require google, x, meta and your grandmother to be rolling out datacenters EVERYWHERE, driving up the costs of electricity for the average user, while polluting the air and water.
Faux, I get it, you’re an aibro, you really are a believer. Evidence isn’t going to sway you because this isn’t evidence driven. The suffering of others isn’t going to bother you, that’s their problem. The damage to the ecosystem isn’t your problem, you apparently don’t need water or air to exist. You got it made bro.
pfft.
The ability to know how any sequence of amino acids will create a protein and what shape the protein would have. This also led to other scientists creating diffusion models which can be prompted with protein properties and they generate the sequence of amino acids which will create a protein with those properties. We also can write those arbitrary sequences into mRNA and introduce that into a local area of our cells.
But what do I know, I’m just an aibro. So, I’ll listen to scientists who write peer reviewed papers which are published in scientific journals: AI-Enabled Protein Design: A Strategic Asset for Global Health and Biosecurity
Well, Fukushima would be one place.
Now they can use disposable robotic dogs to do clean up and monitoring in high radiation areas. A job that humans were doing at the beginning. I’m sure those humans appreciate not having to die of cancer early.
🙄. If you can’t win an argument just switch to insults, the tactic of choice for the ignorant.
Ah I see you read a wiki article and consider yourself an expert, again.
what has it DELIVERED?
my god man, what has it delivered?
yes yes that’s been established.
now you’re just lying. the robots used in fukushima aren’t AI trained.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-reactor-melted-fuel-robot-9ffc309fb072580bee0161e8a24c8490
you’re so fulla shit it’s dripping down your beard. gonna block you now, go lie to someone else.
Whip those goalposts around a little harder.
Oh no, and you seemed like such a pleasant and respectful person. :(
Oh I have read and heard about all those things, none of them (to my knowledge) are being done by OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, or any of the large companies fueling the current AI bubble, which is why I call it a bubble. The things you mentioned are where AI has potential, and I think that continuing to throw billions at marginally better LLMs and generative models at this point is hurting the real innovators. And sure, maybe some of those who are innovating end up getting bought by the larger companies, but that’s not as good for their start-ups or for humanity at large.
AlphaFold is made by DeepMind, an Alphabet (Google) subsidiary.
Google and OpenAI are also both developing world models.
These are a way to generate realistic environments that behave like the real world. These are core to generating the volume of synthetic training data that would allow training robotics models massively more efficient.
Instead of building an actual physical robot and having it slowly interact with the world while learning from its one physical body. The robot’s builder could create a world model representation of their robot’s body’s physical characteristics and attach their control software to the simulation. Now the robot can train in a simulated environment. Then, you can create multiple parallel copies of that setup in order to generate training data rapidly.
It would be economically unfeasible to build 10,000 prototype robots in order to generate training data, but it is easy to see how running 10,000 different models in parallel is possible.
On the other hand, the billions of dollars being thrown at these companies is being used to hire machine learning specialists. The real innovators who have the knowledge and talent to work on these projects almost certainly work for one of these companies or the DoD. This demand for machine learning specialists (and their high salaries) drives students to change their major to this field and creates more innovators over time.