• ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    You act as though those billions of dollars spent towards other things (like cancer research) would somehow be better.

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      15 hours ago

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      Fucking yes it would be better to put hundreds of billions of dollars every year into curing cancer/HIV/ Type 1 diabetes/alzheimers, literally any disease. Curing a major illness like those would actively help hundreds of thousands or millions of people around the world every year.

      What does AI help? My fucking manager in sending cryptic emails that raise more questions than answers?

      Dump a few hundred billion into disease research, or fusion power, or just into housing for all of us.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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        9 hours ago

        AI helped me with my voting ballot. I asked Kagi’s AI to research the ambiguous candidates and propositions. I had it put them into a political alignment chart - left/centrist/rightwing. Addendums for candidates included things like whether they had criminal convictions or corruption, stance on vaccinations, how they feel about “tough on crime”, the homeless, ect.

        For propositions, the political alignments had a fourth entry added, where the yes/no included the wealth level of backers for a position.

        This is very useful, completing in a hour what would have taken a week of research. Very useful for digging into the mechanical details of a proposition, like whether it prevented the replacement or supplementing of a measure.

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          5 hours ago

          How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I’ve asked it to include source links, those source links don’t actually support the AI’s statement.

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            1 hour ago

            One of the candidates was appointed to their office by a Republican governor, and elevated more recently by a Democratic one. The AI referred to official government records.

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              48 minutes ago

              Well, that’s one candidate. And a reference to an official gov doc doesn’t meant the info was extracted or summarized accurately.

              How about the others?

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          10 hours ago

          With a .ml account you need to. I’ve heard way more absurd statements said with a straight face from .ml users