Am I the only one who is reminded of modern Luddites when reading this thread?
"The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
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Originally Posted by rjwse@aol.com
AI will be the tool coming up with cancer cures and genetic error correction.
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You have a time machine, don't you? I doubt that AI by itself will come up with a cure for any disease. It may be helpful finding some molecules that are more potent than previously available or offer new targets. After all pattern recognition is something AI is very good at and computers (or some form of AI) is already used to optimize pharmacologically active molecules.
Personally I really don't know what to do with AI. I recently bought the Viwoods AIPaper Reader which has an app that let's one use different LLMs. I asked one of these LLMs what to do with it. Then a large text wall came and I still don't know what to do with it. One thing I did though, was to ask for books that are in style similar to the 3 books Joe Keenan wrote, which I really enjoyed reading multiple times. Since I haven't read any of the recommandations so far I can't say how accurate these are.
Anyway...I don't have to use this AI app (but I could if I want) and I bought the device as a small and light reader. I guess it's the same with Calibre, which I only use to convert something to epub now and then. I really don't like the way Calibre handles the sorting of files. I'd rather have something that just stores some meta data of all the folders I have already sorted my epubs, pdfs, cbr, cbz and other files into.