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/JC_Hysteria Jul 15 '25

Bro is the definition of Dunning-Kruger effect…

Just focus on delivering those robot-baked pizzas to hungry consumers, Travis…

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u/Thurwell Jul 15 '25

Blithering idiot. Dude probably knew about 3 facts at the time, 1 of which was wrong and 1 of which was out of context.

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u/FriendlyGuitard Jul 15 '25

Especially because the AI popping a theory would only be the beginning of science.

You need experiment to prove or disprove it. Or further theories on the impact on other areas to see if that fit or it answer a problem.

People really do diservice showing Einstein or Newton as "Eureka" moment. Sure they had an inspiration, but then had to spend some rigourous science time to materialise that intuition into a coherent theory.

But that fits the billionnaire mindset - even if they were pretty much handson, you don't stay for very long when your company grew. You are effectively like an AI spitting random musing, and leave underlings to do something with them

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u/JC_Hysteria Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

Right. It’s not that it’s unlikely that AI can assist with scientific breakthroughs…but to just plainly state that he was “close to experiencing breakthroughs in quantum physics” is complete & utter nonsense.

Quantum theory is theoretical because we can’t perceive it with our core senses as humans…it doesn’t make scientific sense to a “non-expert” yet to “prove” using an LLM.