What did I miss? Who is pivoting into hornybots?
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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Either (you genuinely belive) you are 18 (24, 36 does not matter) months away from curing cancer or you're not.
What would we as outsiders observe if they told their investors that they were 18 months away two years ago and now the cash is running out in 3 months?
Now I think the current iteration of AI is trying to get to the moon by building a better ladder, but what do I know.
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There's not a single world where LLMs cure cancer, even if we decided to give the entirety of our energy output and water to a massive server using every GPU ever made to crunch away for months.
which fucking sucks, because AI was actually getting good, it could detect tumours, it could figure things fast, it could recognise images as a tool for the visually impaired...
But LLMs are non of those things. all they can do is look like text.
LLMs are an impressive technology, but so far, nearly useless and mostly a nuance.
down in Ukraine we have a dozen or so image analysis projects that can't catch a break because all investors can think about are either swarm drones (quite understandably) or LLM nothingburgers that burn through money and dissipate every nine months. Meanwhile those image analysis projects manage to progress on what is basically scraps and leftovers.
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Not strictly LLMs, but neural nets are really good at protein folding, something that very much directly helps understanding cancer amount other things. I know an answer doesn't magically pop out, but it's important to recognise the use cases where NN actually work well.
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And it's clear we're nowhere near achieving true AI, because those chasing it have made no moves to define the rights of an artificial intelligence.
Which means that either they know they'll never achieve one by following the current path, or that they're evil sociopaths who are comfortable enslaving a sentient being for profit.
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Um, human history has repeatedly demonstrated that when a new technology emerges, the two highest priorities are:
- How can we kill things with this?
- How can we bone with this?
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Ow, that's why they are restricting "organic" porn, to sell AI porn. Damn.
If you've ever wondered why porn sites use pictures of cars, buses, stop signs, traffic lights, bicycles and sidewalks in their captchas, it's because they're using the data to train car-driving AIs to recognize those patterns.
This is not what an imminent breakthrough in cancer research looks like.
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We are closer to making horny chatbots than a superintelligence figuring out a cure for cancer.
Actually, if the latter wins, would that super AI win a Nobel prize?
what if my kink is curing cancer?
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No money in curing cancer with an LLM. Heaps of money taking advantage if increasingly alienated and repressed people.
You could sell the cure for a fortune. Imagine something that can reliably cure late stage cancers. You could charge a million for the treatment, easily.
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I appreciate that this post is using dark mode
What about an AI naughty nurse that does both?
You can use AI to fulfill your fantasies! for example: having healthcare (if you're not American, this joke does not apply)
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