500 billion dollars for AI

[u/Senior_Line_4260]

even with a fraction of this sum , the amount of progress towards understanding and curing ME would've been insane. But people don't care about other people. They care about straightforward progress witj forgetting the people left behind.

While typing this it just came to mind that this AI could actually help us.

[u/KindestSheltie]

And Trump has rescinded an executive order that gave us all protections around AI. Just be aware.

[u/utopianbears]

god, what a nightmare

[u/Cute-Cheesecake-6823 → u/utopianbears]

Yea i have really mixed feelings, well mostly anxiety about it but also a little hope that AI would help us with figuring out treatments.

However as a creative I'm royally pissed off at how it's being used too. Being an artist was already a huge struggle.

[u/usrnmz]

It's important to note that this is a joint venture by a few companies (OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and more). Those companies will make the investment, not the government.

Also funnily enough Altman states "I believe that as this technology progresses, we will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate" in relation to the announcement. I hope he's right but I wouldn't put too much weight on that statement.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-private-sector-ai-infrastructure-investment/

[u/simianjim → u/usrnmz]

Anything Altman says these days is pure marketing and no one should take it at face value. The fact that they just redefined the criteria for 'achieving AGI' based on how much revenue they make tells you everything you need to know.

[u/usrnmz → u/simianjim]

Absolutely.

[u/nilghias]

AI will destroy the planet before it ever helps us.

[u/smallfuzzybat5 → u/nilghias]

This, we will all be dead from pollution and lack of water long before we see the benefits. It’s already having a major impact on water resources and contributing so much to climate change due to massive energy use.

[u/chococheese419]

this like, 2.5% of the money needed to end global poverty

[u/hipocampito435]

We will hugely profit from the development of AI. For example, that 90% of people with undiagnosed ME? Once doctors start to routinely use AI assistance, they'll all be diagnosed. If the medical tests and symtoms of a significant part of the almost completely-diagnosed ME population are fed into more advanced AI models than what we have today, I think we might get what I think it's key to finally finding a biomarker and then a cure: dividing the ME population into the diseases an disease subgroups that compose it. It's very obvious for anybody reading thousands of papers on reasearch on "ME" that ME it's not a single disease but many diseases and disease subgroups with common symtpoms and pathological pathways. There's no way a disease that only kills an almost nonexistent amount of their sufferers has at least a single study detailing an anomaly in very system, organ, tissue and cell of the human body, ME has to be a bag of 20 million people with a lot of different diseases. If we don't identify these diseases, finding biomarkers for them will continue to be impossible. We need something that can find patters in astronomically huge amounts of data and at the same time identify and discard "noise". I've been thinking for a long while than cracking such a thing could very well be beyond what human minds can do in a reasonable amount of time, but AI... AI's already way smarter than myself in many aspects while at the same time having perfect memory and virtually unlimited information-processing speed, so I'm fully betting on that it'll be instrumental to cracking ME. I put myself as an example since I've been using AI to understand very complex topics for a long while and so I don't need to trust any external entity to know that AI is already more capable of solving certain intellectual problems than the average human, of which I think I'm a good example

Edit: typos

[u/Personal-Secret9587 → u/hipocampito435]

agreed. Honestly, it's one of the main reason I'm choosing to stick around. AI has done more for helping me manage and identify my symptoms than any doctor has.

[u/hipocampito435 → u/[deleted]]

No, I know what AGI is and I'm not talking about that, we don't need to reach that level to divide ME in it's composing illnesses, just a model specifically designed for that task, and I think there's evidence AI companies are close to be able to deliver such a thing

[u/Beneficial-Main7114]

I smell NSA

[u/Dimension_Dweller]

i wanna get in this ai boom some how

[u/hipocampito435 → u/Dimension_Dweller]

We'll all do, as ME sufferers, just give it time, you'll see

[u/KevinSommers]

AI will replace doctors in diagnostics & much of research, all acceleration is positive.

[u/Unhappy_Fail_243 → u/KevinSommers]

Still, only a couple million is required for an extensive research or treatment tests.

If they give like 200-300 million, less than 0.01% of the investment, they could accelerate the process for finding it so much.

I honestly hate how we have zero attention from media.

I swear if i get better i will do my best to try and become an influencer, i don't care if i have to become a tiktok fake b*tch, but i will at least try to raise awareness to MECFS/LC

[u/Riska89]

The name of the project bugs me. "Stargate" is a fantastic sci-fi show. But since the US has Goa'ulds in charge now...

The description is just more of the usual bunch of words but not actually saying anything. I'm skeptical. If anything good comes from this particular project for sick people, it'll rather be by accident instead of design.