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[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

We pretrain METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer model [...] , on a [...] dataset [...] sourced from a large collection of human wastewater samples,

https://metagene.ai/metagene-1-paper.pdf

[-] lath@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

If you think about it, AI training on shit can be a useful way to get an early warning on some very serious illnesses. If done right.

Take a dump, use phone to take pictures. AI analyzes for recognizable markers and lets the user know if they should visit a doctor for consultation.

Shitposting for health!

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago

Meet Toto

I look forward to a future where health insurance premiums are adjusted on the fly based on analysis of your most recent #2, and everyone's dietary habits and illicit substance use are logged and uploaded to the cloud.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

And here i thought shit couldn't get even shittier...

Oh, you ain't seen this shit yet.

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Someone should give ai eyes hands and ears so they can learn shit themselves before doing a job

[-] Speiser0@feddit.org -3 points 2 days ago

The code of germans is always shit.

this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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