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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by fiddlestix@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's massively important in the sciences, both for computing purposes and theoretical design and investigation purposes.

AI is completely revolutionizing genetics research and subjects like biochemistry and pharmacology, because it's able to extrapolate from already identified genes and compounds and find new ones or identify the purposes of genes just from their sequence structure.

It's made processes that would take weeks or months just to identify a single new component to something that takes days or hours.