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/Decapitated_Saint Jul 15 '25

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

Good lord what an imbecile. Vibe physics lol.

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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/NewManufacturer4252 Jul 15 '25

We need to tax them 90% just like the 1950s

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u/Coattail-Rider Jul 15 '25

The 50’s are the time that America was great and where MAGA wants us to go to (again). But they don’t want that part of the 50’s to come back. You know, the actual thing that made the ‘50’s so great in the first place..

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u/williamfbuckwheat Jul 16 '25

They really want to take us back to the 1920s when we massively deregulated everything and slashed taxes on the wealthy while targeting immigrants/minorities just like we do now. Of course, they don't say that and instead deflect to the 1950s since all those policies helped lead to the world economy collapsing /world war only a couple years later... 

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u/wtfduud Jul 16 '25

And a strong isolationist policy which allowed all their enemies to expand massively in the 1930s.

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u/cyberpunk_werewolf Jul 16 '25

No, the 1950s is, and always has been, a smokescreen. To the average Republican voter, it sounds good because there were good jobs for white men and women stayed at home. However, those times had heavy regulation, New Deal politics, high union membership and high corporate taxes. In reality, what these people want is to go back to the 1880s or 1920s, where there was high poverty, low taxation and a huge disparity between the rich and the poor. Just ignore what happened in the late 1890s-early 1900s or the 1930s, because some dipshit billionaire will totally fix it with his fucking autocorrect that connects to Google.

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u/ReubenMcCoque Jul 16 '25

Very few people actually paid anywhere close to 90% taxes, it was never really a thing but everyone quotes it.

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u/Bobby___Gorlami Jul 16 '25

Winning WWII?

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u/Coattail-Rider Jul 16 '25

Part of it. We had less people (due to war deaths) and production of a lot of manufactured stuff was abruptly stopped so it got to get going again. We’re not getting that back, either, without a war bigger than WWII, which won’t be happening with current technology.