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amazing work
it’s crazy. some of this went from taking years to now taking minutes and people react negative because it’s using machine learning and AI.
Thank you Google.
So the actually useful product gets shit down for the useless product
So I finally let my Android Auto update from Google Assistant to Gemini, which it’s been wanting for months.
First thing I did was prompt it to play a specific artist, just like I do at least once a week since it forces me to use the voice activation instead of the on screen keyboard, even when there are passengers that can type. It responded saying it is not capable of playing music at all. Wtf.
So I then rephrase and tell it to play the artist on YouTube Music… And it does so, but doesn’t get the artist even close to correct. I had to prompt it 5 times with varying emphasis to get it to finally get it right.
So literally the first thing it did wa like to me… and then it worked correctly less than 20% of the time… So much better than the Assistant it replaced that never gave me a problem. Totally better.
My car with Google assistant interrupted my conversation with my girlfriend yesterday and started giving me a haiku very loudly for no reason. I guess it was listening and thought we said haiku…
At least it made us laugh. But technology is ridiculous right now. So much shit we don’t want or need.
Even more scarier: it’s listening when you don’t know or want to
It has to do that to know when you say a keyword like “hey Google”. I just wonder what other keywords it’s listening to and using to serve ads or profile me as a user.
At least all the things NSA and CIA are interested at the time…
All new things always have an intelligence aspect to it:
- Find my network: Find any device globally by its ”anonymized” identifier. Make a device you hack remotely send these BLE pings and voilà, some Apple or Google device is surely nearby to hear it and tell you where it is.
- Voice assistants: Hear what people talk about privately by injecting new wake-up words like ”Trump”. Cannot be used en masse yet perhaps because it’s usually only the device detecting the trigger word, and sending ”uncertain interpretations” too often would get noticed by someone.
- LLM chats: Well the same as Google searches etc. historically but now way more nuanced and with more context of what the target in intending/thinking. Building a psychological profile of them through features like ”memory”. And as LLM is such an undeterministic black box, you can easily get away with injecting all sorts of ideas through its responces.
We have seen the step by step dance into dystopia for decades now. Tech is only improving our society as a side effect of monitoring people or charging more money from people.
I remember using Google Now on my Galaxy Nexus a lot and actually finding it useful. Then Google pushed for Assistant and it was a dumpster fire. Glad to see that big G is still up to the same shenanigans.
Same thing with swapping to Gemini on the phone. First thing and only thing I asked for was to set a reminder alarm. But Gemini couldn’t talk to the clock app and refused. In the trash it went.
alphafold isn’t sunsetting, they are dismantling the original research team. its still active and being worked on
Logical response. Won’t be upvoted by many.
Stupid response, will be downvoted by many lmao
Illogical comment. Might not be up voted by many.
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Google. The graveyard of projects.
They are killing Google earth desktop application.
Pls tell me this won’t affect google earth VR on steam. It’s amazing!
The cost in preventable deaths, had we been continuing protein research instead of pouring the world’s resources into a fancy autocorrect, is incalculable.
But you need to understand, preventing deaths doesn’t make Google any money. Please think about the poor corporation!
Honestly they could’ve pointed AI at this problem to try and rack up at least some positive AI press coverage
But… Alpha fold is AI.
Holy shit, that is so fucking stupid. This has so much potential. This is such an anti-human pattern.
Do Be Evil
Don’t Be EvilDon’t Do Good Things
In 2011 Google surreptitiously edited, “don’t be evil”, from its mission statement. Voila!
As Macron would say, “who would have guessed capitalism is evil?”
so letting a person own their own company is evil? we just hand it to the government?
this is about greed not capitalism… which is private ownership. our government is just as greedy
Yes, letting a person own a means of production leads to greed and they, unlike government, are not able to be voted out. They just grow more powerful and stupid drunk on wealth and they do stupid shit that destroys economies and environments and societies and surround themselves with yes men so they never have to hear about the consequences of their actions from anyone “important”.
Elon musk should not own the space program. Jeff Bezos should not own all retail. Palmer Luckey should be “disrupting” defense.
You are not a capitalist, you are a worker with Stockholm syndrome. Fuck capitalism, it’s time for it to go. It’s antiquated and unnecessary.
As Trump would say, “who knew healthcare could be so hard?”, at least french people know how to protest…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t AlphaFold basically solve protein folding, as in their master database of folds is now complete? Doesn’t it make sense to move on at this point?
AlphaFold does a couple of things. It’s capability in predicting how a single protein will be folded tends to be quite nice, but organisms often rely on complex interactions between proteins. It has a feature to calculate the folding of two or more proteins with each other, which is incredibly important to understand more complex interactions in various processes in the human body, as well as drug interactions.
It is also easier to create a database of folding for all normal proteins in the human body. Any change in your DNA, which is somewhat more common than people think, can modify your proteins to one that has not been seen before, since many proteins can have chunks that don’t do anything but act as filler. Except, when those changes affect a bit that doesn’t act as filler or make the filler suddenly interact with other proteins or structures, like making the protein fold entirely differently or become hydrophobic where it shouldn’t be, then you’re in trouble.
These modified proteins need to be analyzed as well and when their primary function in your body is to interact with other proteins, then this multimer functionality is critical. And that certainly needs much more research, as it is very, very far from perfect.
If only genetic sequences were so finite. And what happens when researchers are developing a new protein that never existed before? Protein folding is NP-hard—even if P=NP is solved, protein folding may still be a challenge. It is likely that there will always be a need for software like this, and that the software will need periodic updates as new sequence behaviors come to light.
That said, as another comment points out, Google is merely stepping back from the AlphaFold project, which will continue without their funding or oversight.
It does not do everything perfectly. There’s many abnormalities to protein structures and research in that area of biology is certainly far from done too. So there is definitely room to improve it further.
How are there like 3 positive comments on this article? Is Engaget primarily for dummies?
Good to know. I’ll continue not really going here lol
Other former staff members were reassigned to Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs, which is a DeepMind spin-off.
They’re still actively working on this area of research.
No they are not actively working on the same area, and yes fuck google, because this exact example is as clear as it gets why we should burn every database that google owns.
deepmind by principle was meant to offer global scientific communities a tool that helped with research, cutting down errors and trial time massively, it was a free, open-scientific prediction model.
Deepmind offered its different versions of source code for free to universities and science based communities, tried to help develop and accelerate its research “non commercial rule applied”.
Deepmind was non profit, open access that had zero return value on licensing.
isomorphic lab, is a venture capitalist company that relies on hiding its research, recently get funded 2billion by the most evil zionist, the one and only, the scum of the sewers …. Joshua Kushner.
Err, sir. This is a pile on / anti Google thread. Please take your comments elsewhere. Please and thank you.
Pitchforks! Get yer pitchforks. Four for a paaand!
I’ll set down my anti-Google pitchfork when the company dissolves, but I love to hear accurate updates on things. I can cradle my pitchfork in the crook of my arm while I listen.
We pursue AI for the good of humanity my ass
Idiocracy
