Re:GPT-4 API General Availability
by ben_w on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:18AM
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> So what we have ongoing for half a century?
Except fully automated, cheaper, and with the capacity to fluently respond to each and every person who cares about the topic.
At GPT-4 prices, a billion words is only about 79800 USD.
> Life can’t be “won” by intelligence, that is only one factor, luck being a very significant other one.
It doesn't need to be the only factor, it just needs to be a factor. Luck in particular is the least helpful counterpoint, as it's not like only one person uses AI at any given moment.
> Especially biology is massively data-limited, which won’t be any more available to an AI than to the researchers at hand, let alone that teenager.
Indeed; I certainly hope this isn't as easy as copy-pasting bits of one of the many common cold virus strains with HIV.
But homebrew synbio and DNA alteration is already a thing.
Except fully automated, cheaper, and with the capacity to fluently respond to each and every person who cares about the topic.
At GPT-4 prices, a billion words is only about 79800 USD.
> Life can’t be “won” by intelligence, that is only one factor, luck being a very significant other one.
It doesn't need to be the only factor, it just needs to be a factor. Luck in particular is the least helpful counterpoint, as it's not like only one person uses AI at any given moment.
> Especially biology is massively data-limited, which won’t be any more available to an AI than to the researchers at hand, let alone that teenager.
Indeed; I certainly hope this isn't as easy as copy-pasting bits of one of the many common cold virus strains with HIV.
But homebrew synbio and DNA alteration is already a thing.