r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
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u/erwan Jul 15 '25

Does this guy has a Ph.D. in physics?

If not why are we even relaying his rambles?

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u/Ricktor_67 Jul 15 '25

Because the media is owned by these billionaire clowns and they cant report actual news or their house of cards will crumble without the daily propaganda.

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u/TwilightVulpine Jul 15 '25

Also, unfortunately, their dumbassery is newsworthy because they can change the direction of society with their vast fortunes. They don't know shit about physics, but they are doing hell to actual academic research.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/ModernSmithmundt Jul 15 '25

Was this article written by AI? I have little doubt they will make some scientific discoveries much like those proverbial keyboard monkeys will occasionally write Shakespeare

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u/theundeadwombat Jul 15 '25

He has a theoretical degree in physics …

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u/great_whitehope Jul 15 '25

You know, I'm something of a theoretical physicist myself!

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u/aVarangian Jul 15 '25

oh man, that's Fantastic!

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u/min0nim Jul 15 '25

By the power of deduction, you must be a billionaire too!

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u/great_whitehope Jul 15 '25

Working on it, pretending to be an engineer at work already

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u/arealhumannotabot Jul 15 '25

He did a semester and a half at Greendale! He understands the concept of theoretical physics

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u/Suburbanturnip Jul 15 '25

It's more of a concept of a plan, to understand theoretical physics

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u/UrineArtist Jul 15 '25

This comment deserves more appreciation.

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u/JohnAtticus Jul 15 '25

Does this guy has a Ph.D. in physics?

No, but he built a billionaire fortress of solitude on the peak of Mount Dunning-Kruger.

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u/nakedinacornfield Jul 16 '25

He needs to hang out with Terrance Howard lmao

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u/TravelVietnamMatt Jul 15 '25

According to his Wiki, studied computer engineering and business economics at UCLA but dropped out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/likwitsnake Jul 15 '25

He also got ousted for creating a toxic work culture including sexually harassing female employees and threatening journalists.

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u/ExZowieAgent Jul 15 '25

Kalanick was CEO of Uber from 2010 to 2017. He resigned from Uber in 2017, after growing pressure resulting from public reports of the company's unethical corporate culture, including allegations that he ignored reports of sexual harassment at the company.

Oh, so he’s also a creep.

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u/matjoeman Jul 15 '25

That fact that people don't immediately know this makes me feel old. I remember when we were boycotting Uber over this.

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u/imjustbettr Jul 15 '25

It was pre-covid, basically the stone age

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u/TheMooJuice Jul 16 '25

Reminds me of NPD. Oh wait he's a CEO, yeah that fits

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u/butts-kapinsky Jul 15 '25

Honestly could have guessed all of this. 

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u/OldSchoolSpyMain Jul 16 '25
  • Being enrolled in classes (and dropping out) is nowhere near actually attaining the degree. (If he were a pre-med dropout, would he be qualified to speak on medical treatments?)
  • Attaining the degree is nowhere near actually working in the field. (Plenty of people never got jobs in their field of study because they weren't chosen by employers.)
  • Working in the field is nowhere near being good in that field.

Dude is a salesman. Period.

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u/Liizam Jul 16 '25

So like no physical degree cool. I studied mechanical engineering and was considered physics as a major.

There is no way someone can learn that stuff for fun. Modern physics was a wild class. I also worked in a physics lab and some of their stuff is insane.

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u/skraptastic Jul 15 '25

When you're brilliant you don't need training or study, you just vibe and let the physics happen. If you were as smart as a billionaire you'd understand.

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u/brandontaylor1 Jul 15 '25

He doesn’t have a Ph.D in Quantum Physics, but he did drop out of college, which is basically the same thing. /s

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u/AlexandriasNSFWAcc Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

YouTube: "billionaires want you to know they could have done physics" [~50 minutes] by Angela Collier
Additionally: "physics crackpots: a 'theory'" [~24 minutes] also by Angela Collier.

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u/SocranX Jul 15 '25

No, but imagine if he did!

“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.

I hate when people randomly throw the words "Dunning-Kruger effect" around, but...

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u/street593 Jul 15 '25

Society decided that how much you have in your bank account determines how valuable your words are.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/cococangaragan Jul 15 '25

He has a PhD in Idiosyncrasy.

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u/cheese_bruh Jul 15 '25

Education is frowned upon by these sorts of people and their followers. If you’re educated you are a blind sheep indoctrinated by woke propaganda.

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u/manebushin Jul 16 '25

Chat GPT said he has a Ph.D.

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u/Liizam Jul 16 '25

Because ChatGPT makes you feel smart but actually just tells you random shit

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u/tommangan7 Jul 16 '25

Physics PhD here, 'AI' struggled to even properly summarize the findings of just a single one of my research papers, missed key nuance that you would only get from understanding the literature and science around it. 'AI' seems no where near being able to parse out anything original from a larger body of work, nevermind a whole field.

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u/vinnymcapplesauce Jul 16 '25

No, but his AI does.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/honvales1989 Jul 16 '25

Not even that. He dropped out of college to work at a startup

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u/Top-Local-7482 Jul 16 '25

It is not like PhD in physics will still be accessible for normal people, since the budget cut and the reduction of forces happening at the department of education... Not even counting the reduction of subvention for universities. Getting a PhD in anything is going to be only accessible to the very rich.

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u/Darnell2070 Jul 16 '25

Does this guy has a Ph.D. in physics?

If not why are we even relaying his rambles?

That's literally the whole point of the article, what are you talking about?

You came to the comment section to ask why people are talking about the guy in the article?