• Armand1@lemmy.world
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    LLMs are like Trump government appointees:

    • They hallucinate like they’re on drugs
    • They repeat whatever they’ve seen on the internet
    • They are easily maniuplated
    • They have never thought about a single thing in their lives

    Ergo, they cannot and will not ever discover anything new.

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    LLMs: hallucinate like that guy from school who took every drug under the moon.

    Actual trained specially AI: finds new particles, cures for viruses, stars, methods…

    But the latter one doesn’t tell it in words, it does in the special language you use to get the data in the first place, like numbers and codes.

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      It’s exactly what I was thinking. They should let the AI build a spaceship and all get into it. Would be the greatest achievement in humans history… when it blows up and kills all of them.

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        If only. They’ll fill it with sycophants until the explosions stop. They’re just more resources for them to use.

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      Well… IIRC a chimp did great in the stockmarket compared to professional traders, maybe it’s time to give something even “stupider” a chance. I mean how much of a difference is there between a buzzword fueled techbro and a predictive text engine regurgitating random posts from the internet?

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    I’m running really promising (infant) simulations on my computer. The void is a concept, not a physical reality (my hypothesis which has no evidence, as of yet), and that actually leads to a sort of “bounce” or reactive (rather than active) physical law. The word salad sorters aren’t going to dismantle our false premises. Might as well write letters asking Santa for scientific advancement.

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    I will be soooo pissed if we get faster then light travel from an LLM, but never know how it works.

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        And it would be like that, I picture a ton of seemingly pointless steps and then the effect.

        And ever worse is it would ether not work unless every silly step was done or (possibly even more dark) we remove steps and it still works to the point that all the steps are gone, and its just a button.

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    OpenAI’s new model was able to get 5 out of 6 questions (a gold medal) on the 2025 International Math Olympiad. I am very surprised by this result, though I don’t see any evidence of foul play.

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    The worst part is some useful things could come from it, because we’re hurtling towards infinite monkeys. It’ll only be by pure happenstance, and unless they are lucky enough to randomly find a really great breakthrough it still won’t be worth the massive resources they’ve wasted.

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    One of the reasons they give for it is : physicists use LLMs in their workflows, so LLMs are close to make physics discoveries themselves.

    Clearly, these statements are meant to hype up the AI bubble even more.

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    some fucking moron is going to give AI access to recombinant genetic editing and it’s going to murder us all.

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      That’s exactly it. Here’s a quote from what he said during the article. Dude is so uniformed that he thinks AI is doing amazing stuff, but doesn’t understand that experts realize AI is full of shit.

      “I pinged Elon on at some point. I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool?” Kalanick said.

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        This PhD mostly uses it to summarize emails from the administration. It does a shit job, but it frees up time for more science so who cares.

        The real irony is that the administration probably used AI to write the emails in the first place. The mails have gotten significantly longer, less dense and the grammar has gotten better.

        Begun this AI arms race has.

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        Out of context, and I didn’t read the rest, that sounds reasonable.

        “If my dumbass is learning and finding, what about actual pros?!”

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          Lots of things seem reasonable if you skip the context and critical reasoning. It’s good to keep some past examples of this that personally bother you in your back pocket. Then you have it as an antidote for examples that don’t bother you.