[ExI] Dr. GPT, Problem-solver

[BillK]

On Mon, 1 May 2023 at 09:34, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> I have an idea.
>
> Instead of endlessly arguing and giving these GPT systems leading
> questions about whether they are conscious or understand things then
> believing their answers when they correspond to our preconceptions, why
> doesn't somebody ask one how it can help us cure cancer?
>
> Or any number of really important real-world problems.
>
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>
> Ben
> _______________________________________________


Yup. AI is being eagerly grabbed by researchers to speed up their work.
<https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-drug-discovery-23150/>
Quote:
There has been a seismic shift in computational drug discovery in the
last few years: an explosion of data availability on clinically
relevant, human-protein structures—and molecules that bind them,
enormous chemical libraries of drug-like molecules, almost unlimited
computing power and new, more efficient computational methods.

The newest excitement is about AI-based drug discovery, but what’s
even more powerful is a combination of AI and structure-based drug
discovery, with both approaches synergistically complementing each
other.
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The exponential speedup in AI development is rapidly spreading to
other fields of research.
The coming singularity is going to affect everything, not just developing AGI.


BillK