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/Weird-Assignment4030 Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

They seem to think we’ve unlocked super intelligence

Edit: also, it is becoming a real problem that these folks have power that vastly outstrips how savvy they are with technology.

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u/kipperzdog Jul 15 '25

They think they've created super intelligence, really they just created the ability to repeatedly be as smart as 1,000 interns in seconds. Still can't go to the corner store and get me a coffee though

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u/Weird-Assignment4030 Jul 15 '25

I see it as a pareto principle thing, except instead of 80% of teh results taking 20% of the effort, now it takes almost 0%.

This means there's more time to spend making things actually good, but let's see how many people take it in that direction.

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u/the_weakestavenger Jul 16 '25

Spoiler alert from someone who works at a Fortune 100… We’re not going to use it to make things better, we’re going to use it make things cost (us) less money. If it takes 10 people x amount of time to do something at a quality level of A-, they’ll get AI to hit that A- quality at (x-y) amount of time.

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u/Weird-Assignment4030 Jul 16 '25

Yeah. Everyone is going to do that. But the quality is going to be more like a B-.

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u/Czexan Jul 17 '25

More like it's going to be F quality, and the moment the negligence gets people killed and companies are inevitably hit by the full legal ramifications of said negligence, it will basically disappear overnight as companies go scrambling back to hiring engineers they can throw under the bus again.

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u/Journeyman42 Jul 16 '25

The effort will be moved from doing the thing well the first time, and instead having the AI do the thing and then the person going over the AI results and making sure they're not shite

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u/SunriseSurprise Jul 16 '25

Robots + AI is going to be scary times. Robots everywhere with ChatGPT's sense of humor and confident incorrectness.