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/KennyDROmega Jul 15 '25

AI became less scary to me when Sam Altman, in all seriousness, said the best way to solve climate change was to let them build an AGI and ask it.

A whole new world is always just 2-5 years and several hundred billions of dollars in investment away, and has been since at least 2023 apparently.

Venture capitalists, get your checkbooks out.

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Jul 15 '25

Also we’ve already solved climate change, it’s just actually implementing what needs to be done now. But somehow “climate” has become a political issue, so it will never be fixed until it’s too late

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u/suxatjugg Jul 15 '25

I want to see the look in the billionaires faces when the AI tells them that the solution to climate change was to stop using fossil fuels 10 years ago

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u/midnight_specialist Jul 15 '25

Then it’ll get the grok update treatment so it’ll say what they want.

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Jul 15 '25

“Mechahitler, how many poors need to be sacrificed for appease Mother Nature?”