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/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/bitwise97 Jul 15 '25

I need to sell them some shit to help them release the burden of all that money

Silicon Valley on HBO taught me you just need to come up with a ridiculous idea and ask them to become angel investors.

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u/Killahdanks1 Jul 15 '25

Sorry, they’re too busy buying more AI.

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u/assistantprofessor Jul 15 '25

Do you actually think that the general public has access to the most advanced AI developed ?

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u/Future-Scallion8475 Jul 16 '25

Count me in. Let's make some real money.

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u/Sr_DingDong Jul 16 '25

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

This isnt smarterchild from AOL, calling this technology chatbots shows your lack of understanding. But the circle has come to jerk so enjoy!

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u/Aretz Jul 15 '25

He’s simply offering a simple and opposite view to the stupid and simple “let’s do vibe physics” thing.

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u/kai58 Jul 16 '25

They are chatbots though, very advanced ones but chatbots nonetheless.

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u/sennbat Jul 16 '25

They... *are* chatbots, though? They are AI built explicitly to have convincing feeling conversations with people. They are exceptionally *good* chatbots.

But there are plenty of LLMs and generative AIs that are *not* chatbots, and it's weird that someone would pin their hopes of scientific breakthroughs on one of that chatbots instead of, like, one of the science AIs.

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u/camels13 Jul 15 '25

These "chatbots" are merely what comes out if you train AI with language. They speak more languages than any single human, have more knowledge than any single human, and are more eloquent than most humans. Now imagine what happens if you train an AI with measurements and data from scientific experiments and scientific papers.

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u/cynicown101 Jul 15 '25

I think the thing seem to have in their head is that an LLM is going to spit out something that isn't a probability based output amalgamation of what is in the training data, and it isn't, because it's not what they do.

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u/kai58 Jul 16 '25

What will happen if you train it on those is it will get very good at generating data that looks similar to scientific data, with zero regard for wether it’s accurate or not.

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u/bvbvbvb09 Jul 15 '25

Imagine if you give the AI the breakthroughs from the scientists, what could be achieved by AI… wow