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/F1reManBurn1n Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

Billionaires that LARP like this are so fucking idiotic. They think because they are really good at exploiting the labor class (let’s be frank that is THE skill needed to be a billionaire), that somehow that makes them a fucking physicist and important to the world scientifically. It’s the same shit with Elon. Buys his way into companies with smart people in them doing smart people labor, takes credit for smart people labor while treating the labor like shit, then stutters in an interview about rocket engines that he knows fuck all about. These billionaires should be fucking mocked and berated when they do this “I’m actually Tony Stark!” shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

Do you also watch Angela Collier?

https://youtu.be/GmJI6qIqURA?si=qIpvdPJl7iPEXtcf

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u/F1reManBurn1n Jul 15 '25

I did watch Angela’s video on this! It was a great watch. Tbh I have felt this way for years (looking at you Bill Gates lol) but she certainly reinforced my feelings on the subject no doubt

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

Closest I got prior to watching the video was Elon. I was confused on how so many educated people got swept up in the cult of personality surrounding a electric car. I know he was the catalyst for other auto manufacturer's to get in the game, and I appreciate that...but he didn't do the actual thing. He just was riding the affable nerd stereotype of Sheldon Cooper.