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[โ€“] chaogomu@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Generative AI actually does have a few real uses. Most notable is in the generation of new protein sequences.

Not long ago, you had PhD's whose entire career was understanding a single protein sequence. Now we can generate thousands of properly folded proteins. Millions. Stuff nature never thought of.

Due to patent law, the biotech revolution is still a few years out, but it's coming.

You want an enzyme that breaks apart plastic? We can design one now and have yeast producing it within a day or two.

And there are millions more that we can now play with.

Anyway, there are a few more niche uses for generative AI. But then idiot CEOs decided to shove that shit into everything. To decidedly mixed success.

[โ€“] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

What you are actually talking about is Machine learning/genAI.

You have to make that clear, since most people only know ChatGPT as AI, and thus think that people are using ChatGPT for such things