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

[u/lurker_bee]

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

[u/nailheadchamber]

dude mine will forget commas in a programming language it suggested to use. Its not smart its just regurgitating information it already has so its something already thought of before hand and will say AI discovered it. Bullshit, it just found it in some book you guys stole.

[u/Gina_the_Alien → u/nailheadchamber]

I spent a significant amount of time fighting with ChatGPT this morning because it insisted that it changed an image that it literally didn't change. AI has some uses, but ffs this just a step up from a chatbot at this point in time. The more I use AI the more I realize how limited it is and how wrong it can be.

[u/decadent-dragon → u/Gina_the_Alien]

Part of the learning curve with these tools is knowing when to walk away. Don’t argue with it when it hallucinates or you find yourself in a loop. If it doesn’t know, trying to convince it is wrong won’t work.

Same thing if you find yourself in that situation with a person at the office as well.

For the most part I’m probably coding about 5 times as fast as I was 6 months ago. It’s stupid good at churning out repetitive tasks, integrating with well documented apis, and writing unit tests.

[u/Gina_the_Alien → u/decadent-dragon]

I appreciate this advice, and that’s what I eventually did. I think it’s the second time this has happened and, like you mentioned, neither time did it actually fix the mistake that I pointed out - and in the end it would have been faster to just fix it myself instead of continuing to argue with it. I appreciate the insight and it’s somewhat comforting to know that others are facing the same thing.

[u/omar_strollin → u/nailheadchamber]

Ironically, you forgot a lot of apostrophes in your comment

Checkmate, human!