this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

P2P technology is about to get nasty!

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In the future, you swab the inside of your cheek and then insert the swab into a port on your computer, which squeezes the swab to recover the cheek cells and then processes them. Congratulations, you have added 10TB of storage to your computer.

Further thought: downside - your data can be directly linked to you because it is encoded on your own DNA.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you have added 10TB of storage to your computer.

Wouldn't that be more like "you have filled up 3 GB of storage on your computer". In order to create new storage space, your computer would have to be able to print new DNA, not just read existing DNA.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No no, the DNA is the storage media. You're not putting it in to collect your own DNA pattern, you're adding more DNA molecules that the computer can edit to encode data on.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

you're adding more DNA molecules that the computer can edit

Can the computer edit existing sequences on the fly? From what the article described, the DNA storage process sounded more akin to burning a CD or DVD which could be read later, but not modified.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Can you snort it? Just imagine all of that sweet, sweet data...

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

The new way for LLMs to injest data