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What can possibly go wrong if we let ChatGPT edit our DNA?

This model has nothing to do with ChatGPT other than transformers. And as someone that could desperately use some advances in gene editing, this lowbrow dismissal is frustrating.

More and more I find the flippant dismissal of the amazing breakthroughs that are constantly streaming in kind of disheartening.

Nobody is impressed by anything anymore, nobody is excited about the future - everything’s just “terrible” and everything looking forward is bad. I hate that mindset and I’m sick and tired of cynicism poisoning practically every online space. Thank you for saying it’s “lowbrow” and giving OP a little bit of a hard time.

the breakthroughs in tech are great, the way they are marketed, sold, and pushed in our lives by means of adtech everywhere... not so much.

Part of me says - and this is somewhat of a hot take - "then stop using platforms that mash ads into everything?" I don't know, like, I'm here for the rebel yell against global industrial capitalism - let's replace it with the solar punk world of our dreams, but... like, we're not going to do that any time soon, so instead of complaining about "how terrible everything is" let's try to do better. Let's be excited about this stuff. Let's be positive.

Have you seen how generative AI thinks hands work? Just a few edits and reality can catch up.

Have you seen DNA? Mistakes and dupes and hallucinations all over the place. Ever since Sherlock Crick and Doctor Watson started meddling with it.

It's one thing to analyze it. It's an entirely different thing to let a machine of dubious abilities create new DNA.

Isn't DNA in itself a machine of dubious abilities? It's only functional because what functions is what survives, imagine the amount of 'unsurvived' because of how shit the code is.

machines that undergo accelerate evolution, I would trust them more under rigorous guidelines

I just need to be able to test the guidelines and results. Clinical trial process to make an objective decision from that point.

And how does ChatGPT edit your dna

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