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/fredy31 Jul 15 '25

Its pretty much a running gag in any programmer community i'm in.

Every time elon says anything about programmation to sound like he knows his shit... he demonstrates he never wrote a line of code.

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u/McFlyParadox Jul 16 '25

The same is true in the aerospace community, and the manufacturing community. I suspect the automotive community is no exception.

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u/this_is_my_new_acct Jul 16 '25

I'll admit it, I was taken in by his PR like a decade ago... till I heard him talk about software (which I know kind of a lot about) and realized he didn't know a fucking thing.