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AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch after training on 9T nucleotides

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-creates-16-new-viruses-that-never-existed-in-nature-after-learning-dnas-pattern-from-9-trillion-nucleotides-experts-warn-such-applications-are-way-ahead-of-necessary-guardrails
2•sbulaev•1h ago

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Retro_Dev•35m ago
> Experts worry that such studies are way ahead of necessary guardrails and regulations. AI has also been known to fly off the rails autonomously. An OpenAI agent recently went rogue and hacked Hugging Face.

Even if 99% of the population wanted to slow down the improvements being made to (and/or immoral/illegal/unethical use of) AI - assuming it will start to improve superlinearly - I don't believe that the remaining 1% of the population could be prevented from doing so: papers are published, downloaded, and experimented on without restriction... It's possible this growth could be slowed by the proliferation and distribution of local LLMs (decreasing profits for those who primarily train models)... I don't think these scare tactics in the article will prevent the training and feared evolution of AI. :P

Somewhat related: https://ai-2040.com/ Side note: These scare tactics annoy me.

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3•anticensor•1h ago•1 comments

AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch after training on 9T nucleotides

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-creates-16-new-viruses-that...
2•sbulaev•1h ago•1 comments

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2•satvikpendem•1h ago•0 comments

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15•WaitWaitWha•1h ago•1 comments

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2•tohid4n•1h ago•0 comments