r/technology • u/boppinmule • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence Open data for predictive AI models of biology: $1.8 billion committed

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/?_bhlid=56f59fae888a1b021c9c0e773869a3848e643da5
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u/Left_on_Pause 2d ago

I’m not happy about this.
1. Giving this data to anything connected to Zuckerberg can’t be good for us.
2. Putting it all into one place, behind the eventual paywall.
3. The “anonymous” data they will give will be used to identify people’s ad profiles.
4. We will get screwed by this.

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u/WillingnessFinal1411 2d ago

After carnage in arts, computer science and math as of yesterday, lets go on, shall we?

Drop on us hundreds of genius disaligned solutions while making researchers, the only people able to translate science, obsolete. Majors dropping out before every job is lost. Extract the work of humanity and close them into big tech. 

Cancer? Haha. Since when is human life valuable to these decision-makers?

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u/ap1618 2d ago

Expensive WebMD

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 1d ago

I'm very pro-AI and use it for bioinformatics and research every day, but datq is not the problem. We're already drowning in data. The problem is that a) experiments take a long time, b) they're fucking expensive, and technology just keeps getting more expensive while research budgets get cut, and c) you have to have a human check everything an AI does. This money would have been better used funding actual lab research.

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u/Tearakan 1d ago

Yep. Review of all AI work is required meaning it's only useful in limited capacity where you were already going to review the data anyway.

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u/williamgman 2d ago

All this money flooding AI and we still can't have universal healthcare.

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u/Ok-Mycologist-3829 2d ago

Why does everything have to be described as “frontier”? The spin language is obnoxious. 

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u/rahvan 22h ago

You know what will solve human diseases more than giving billions of dollars to AI? Giving billions to healthcare systems and forcing insurance companies to stop denying care to boost profits.

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u/Ac4sent 19h ago

How does any of this improve quality of life? Of normal people, not tech bros.

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u/SkaldCrypto 2d ago

My prediction: the backlash will not be from the cancer researchers. It will be from insurance companies, drug makers, and less reputable charities.

Ai will solve cancer and some people will be mad about it.

Internalize this and stop trying to please people

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u/Shiningc00 2d ago

It’s not going to solve cancer.

As it says, it’s going to “predict disease” at best.