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- Could be cool
It’s like the Mayo Clinic’s data grant
by redanddead - We need increasely difficult bio-agi contests.by swframe2
- We really need to own our own data and allow it to be used for the common good, unfortunatly people just dont get the concept or the value. We are open source and need good open source laws to protect us.by peter_retief
- Meanwhile the current administration is actively taking formerly publicly available data sets that are critical for research offline.by Fomite
- I’ve been toying with the idea of a SETI@Home successor that uses leftover subscription credits from the (currently) subsidized AI providers to help contribute to a collective goal like this.
I wonder if there will be any opportunities to combine resources collectively like that again in the future.
I built a small prototype that would let people in less-developed countries get AI responses from it for free. But it’d be super neat to work together and put our laptops and subscriptions to work on something like this.
by randomdrake - TFA’s missing info in between its PR pairing of the unknown biohub with the (much more well known) NIH and DoE is that biohub is a Zuckerberg initiative. So just imagine all your biological data paired inextricably tied on an opt-out-but-cant-really basis with your Facebook & Insta account.by ricksunny