Never mind potatoes, the medical profession is now dabbling in genome editing.
The genie is out of the bottle on changing the genetic makeup of children before they are born
Science is taking us to places faster than we can develop the ethics
The fastest developments will probably be in places where ‘the ethics’ won’t apply if one has the money (China?). Of course this then raises the question of what might define a ‘perfect’ human!
Definitely less complex if one sticks to potatoes…
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Ethics will always fill in after significant technological development.
Quite amusingly written article about the ‘surprise’ of LLM and ChatGPT that answeres the OP question that began this thread
the biggest technological advances arise because there comes a moment when a number of necessary but unconnected developments suddenly come together to create entirely new possibilities. Instead of the legendary eureka moment, it’s a process of what one may call combinatorial innovation
The next question is: what happens now? And here the history of the tech industry provides the playbook. All of these technologies, no matter how initially complex they are, eventually become commoditised. And once that happens, they enable lots of new products and services to build on them.
The other lesson from the tech industry playbook is that the technology always escapes into the wild. And it has: you can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop and phone. Some genius even has it running (albeit slowly) on a Raspberry Pisingle-board computer. And even I have the image-generating tool Stable Diffusionrunning on my iPhone.
It turns out that users of Microsoft 365 (nee boring old Office) will soon have an LLM – called Copilot – at their beck and call. Apparently, “Copilot in Word will create a first draft for you, bringing in information from across your organisation as needed”. Copilot in Excel, meanwhile, “will reveal correlations, propose what-if scenarios, and suggest new formulas based on your questions”.
Further reading………
