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> My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of 20 pages of legalese.

Flawless sounds like an overstatement. I would hope that you use a professional before signing contract? That's serious stuff.

> I have a fairly affordable Hyundai that's able to drive 80 miles on a highway without me touching the steering wheel.

Are you referring to lane assist or OpenPilot? In both cases you need to be focused enough on the road that (IMO at least) it doesn't make that big of a difference either way. Certainly not life changing.

> I built an app that uses image recognition to automate food logging, from the surveys that we did it cut down the time to log from 15minutes a day to under 2.

Can it detect hot dogs?

> I've worked on systems to monitor patients at risk of falling in a hospital setting.

See my response wrt specialized (medical, industrial, military) settings. There's a lot of other incredible technology at work in hospitals.

> My friend built Tonal, which can track your exercise form

People exercised just fine before this. I'd classify Tonal as a marginal improvement, at best. I've actually found that removing technology and falling back to simple calisthenics (done properly of course) is having a much greater impact than adding more technology, for various reasons.

> Alphafold will be a huge deal for drug discovery.

I agree, but it falls under the category of specialized use cases. It's very exciting though.



You could make the same arguments about computers or the internet.




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