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Last 6 months is humanity losing control of LLMs.

- Memory market cornering which mitigated the adoption of local AI despite great open model being released.

- Fast penetration of IP exfiltrating tools in companies world-wide.

- Developers producing more code that they can read.

- Autonomous agents killing Open Source by siphoning the attention economy

- Autonomous agents destroyed online communities (including HN)

- Autonomous agents being used in warfare (targeting, propaganda...)

- Widespread vulnerabilities discovered, Widespread supply chain attacks.

- Increasing inequality, fracture in perception, Green indicators, Grim realities.

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If you only read bad news (i.e. mass news these days since that sells better) this will be the picture. But I have personally seen some insane stuff happen in biotech. Like, I can't believe we're lucky enough to possibly live our life in this kind of future. We already have actual therepeutics developed using Alphafold being tested right now in real clinical trials, but the next generation of stuff that will go into trials in the next 3-5 years will be insane. We will look back at current medicine like we look back at medieval times today.

Nothing ever happens.

See you in 10-30 years when people are still dying of the same shit as today like oesophageal cancer and glioblastoma.

Maybe in the next century but by that time you and me both will be under the ground, and no, Amodei's doubling of human lifespan simply won't happen.

Protein structure is not a rate-limiting step in drug discovery.

My mother is going on 5 years with multiple myeloma, a cancer that would have offed her in 5 months if it weren’t for advances in maintenance chemotherapy.

Medicine has done amazing things in my lifetime.

AlphaFold is not an LLM. As such, it isn't a fitting example for "good news" related to LLMs.

Alphafold isn't generative and using this as a rebuttal to OP is bad faith

I think it's just further exposed cracks in software engineering that were always there.

Ideally we'll come out of the AI hype cycle having learned better practices.

> Widespread vulnerabilities discovered

This is a good thing

That is a half-truth.

> Widespread supply chain attacks.

This is a bad thing.

Metal Gear Solid 2 was quaint and funny until 2025.

> - Memory market cornering (...)

Wait, what? What is that?

> - Fast penetration of IP exfiltrating tools in companies world-wide.

That goes on the benefit side, I believe.

> - Autonomous agents killing Open Source by siphoning the attention economy

Anything attention economy disappearing is a "good riddance" to me.

>Wait, what? What is that?

i believe they are just saying that RAM prices went crazy

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