I’m curious to get a general pulse on how people here view the rapid evolution of AI, specifically on lemmy. On one side, there’s growing interest in local open-weights models, self-hosted setups, and practical developer/productivity tools. On the other, there seems to be a growing list, I can’t keep track of, that are seen as major concerns. I’m not here to pick sides or be biased in one corner. Im genuinely curious what people have to say about AI in general. And maybe it will help me and other get a better handle on how we perceived it in our ever changing world.
It’s a tool, much like when Google Search first started. LLMs can find things standard ways of doing research cannot. AlphaFold is a useful tool for protein modelling and experimental design, but everything it generates needs validation.
If you have a large dataset you can train to predict things not in the database. But again, everything generated needs to be validated.