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At least the zombies created with AI will be extra fucking lame and predictable
“That’s absolutely correct, I’m definitely going to eat your brains with my teeth! Would you like more recommendations on how to eat brains?”
… is it a virus generated by LLMs, or a virus designed by a model explicitly trained on viruses?
The worst damage LLMs do is when the term AI is automatically rejected by people who don’t understand it.
And that might be intentional.
Based on the linked paper, it reads like they took an existing open weight LLM, tacked on a scheme to parse and output genomics data, and finetuned it a bit. It’s the same approach chatgpt and other big-name models use for reading and producing images, but applied to a different data format.
Yeah see that is what I couldn’t figure out, but it lines up.
It’s not how I would generate anything other than text and certainly not any sort of medical treatment
“Did someone say phage?”
Aw damn Neelix is gonna get his lungs stolen again.
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That was one of the headlines I was very afraid of. The point that this is “just” a bacteriophage mitigates it a bit, assuming that they just modified the anchoring and injection RNA code, but even this might get out of hand.
Well, that’s the dumbest headline I’ve read all week. What could possibly go wrong?
They can’t be too new or they wouldn’t be anywhere near human trials. Anyway, this is the sort of thing AI (machine learning?) excels at. Not getting excited until we see peer review, but the methodology seems sound (to me, an armchair biologist).
They’re skipping that whole “human trial” thing by going for a compassionate use exemption
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/public-health-focus/expanded-access
I’m down for that and think it needs expanded. If I’m terminal, I want the choice to be used as an experiment, assuming the FDA finds the treatment somewhat viable.
Dad had mesothelioma from serving on a WWII destroyer (asbestos wrapped pipes, all those men died by the 80s). He went to some quack in the Bahamas who mixed up snake oil from all his patient’s plasma, patients who later tested positive for AIDS. AIDS hit the public conscious right about when dad died. One wonders…
Yeah, totally agreed.
It’s a tough balancing act to filter the snake oil while taking viable moonshots, but I think that’s a niche that the US regulatory regime has generally done well on, all things considered.
Yeah my first question was “how the hell did they get approval for a human trial”. Until covid I don’t think you would even be able to get approval for mRNA flu vaccine human trials.
